David A. Hartman
Contributing Editor
David Hartman, a contributing editor to The Lone Star Report, was the chairman and C.E.O. of Hartland Bank, N.A., an Austin-based independent bank he formed in 1990 and sold in 1999 to Compass Bancshares. As of 1998, Hartland Bank had eight branches in Central Texas totaling $275 million in assets. It was been one of the 10 most profitable banks in its national peer group.
Hartman has long been active in Republican politics and state public service. He served on Gov. Bill Clements' Special Committee on the Organization of State Agencies as chairman of the General Government Services and Overall Structure of Government subcommittees. He was the Republican nominee for state treasurer in 1994, losing narrowly in the general election. In 1996, he served as Chairman of the Policy Group and Victory '96 Finance Chairman for the Republican Party of Texas.
Hartman's extensive public activities include:
Chairman and Co-Founder, Institute for Budget & Tax Limitation
Chairman, Lone Star Foundation
Chairman, The Rockford Institute
Vice Chairman, The Howard Institute for Family, Religion & Society
Past Director, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Past Director, Texas Citizens Academic Network
Hartman has long been active in Texas fiscal studies, as well as federal studies on welfare and taxation. He has authored numerous studies and articles published by the
Cato Institute, Family In America, and the Texas Republic. His most recently published studies include: "The Work vs. Welfare Trade-Off," co-authored with the Cato Institute's Michael Tanner and Stephen Moore; "The Economic Assault of the Welfare State on the Traditional Ameican Family," presented to the World Conference on the Family in Prague, Czech Republic;
and the IBTL studies "Current Assessment of the Marriage Tax Penalty" and "Closing the U.S. Capital Deficit."
Among the awards he has received are the 1995 Melvin Bradford Award as the Landrum Society's "Outstanding Conservative," and Regional Runner-Up for Inc. Magazine's 1994 "Entrepreneur of the Year."
Hartman received his bachelor of science degree from the Case Institute of Technology, where he graduated cum laude. He graduated "with distinction" with a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
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