Hugh L. Brady is an Austin lawyer with a practice in legislative and appellate law. He has provided advice on complicated procedural and substantive drafting questions to Texas lawmakers of both parties and is an acknowledged expert on the Texas legislative process. “Without ever stepping on the House floor, Hugh Brady . . . had a larger impact on the 78th Legislature than many representatives did,” reported the Texas Observer in 2003. He was editor-in-chief of the Boston University Public Interest Law Journal and a law clerk to United States Circuit Judge Juan Torruella. Brady passed the Texas Bar Examination during his third year of law school, and was licensed to practice law immediately after his graduation from Boston University School of Law. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as a reporter, publisher, lobbyist, marketing firm executive, and legislative aide. The son of a preacher and a horsewoman, he was raised in Jack, Palo Pinto, and Dallas counties.