A proud native Texan, Angela is a resident of McKinney where she has lived, served, and raised a family for over two decades. She was born on Valentine’s Day 1963 in New Braunfels, Texas, and was adopted and welcomed into her new family the day after her birth. She was raised in Mansfield, TX, where her father worked at Bell Helicopter and her mother was a teacher’s aide. Angela attended Baylor University, where she earned a degree in Mathematical Science and became the first person in her family to graduate from college. She continued her graduate studies and earned and Masters in Education from the University of Houston – Clear Lake. An educator by profession and passion, Angela Paxton has 22-years of experience in public and private schools as well as homeschooling. As a teacher, she’s previously taught pre-calculus, trigonometry, geometry, and college algebra. After five years of teaching math and mentoring high school students at Legacy Christian Academy, for the past six years she had the privilege of working with the LCA families as a school guidance counselor. Angela and her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, met at Baylor University. They have been married for 31 years and have four grown children: Tucker, a software engineer; Abby, a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Air Force at Goodfellow Air Force Base; Mattie, a junior education major at Texas A&M; and Katie, a freshman nursing major at Texas A&M. A pro-life conservative, Angela has been an outspoken defender of the unborn, and her personal story of adoption was published in McKinney Women Making a Difference. The Paxton’s attend Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano.