Leighton Schubert

Leighton Paul Schubert (born July 14, 1982) is an American lawyer who served from 2015 to 2018 as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 13 (Austin, Burleson, Colorado, Fayette, Grimes,Lavaca, and Washington counties). On February 17, 2015, he won a special election to succeed fellow Republican Lois Kolkhorst, who was instead elected to the Texas State Senate. Schubert resigned his House seat in February 2018 to take a position at Blinn College in his native Brenham in Washington County, Texas.

Schubert graduated from Snook Middle & High School and Texas A&M University in College Station. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from the South Texas College of Law in Houston. Schubert was a law clerk for then Attorney Generaland currentGovernor Greg Abbott. He previously worked for the Office of Legislative Relations in Harris County and the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C., prior to the establishment of his law office in Caldwell, Texas. In his campaign literature, he calls himself a "conservative Republican."

Schubert won the runoff contest for the House seat by defeating fellow Republican Carolyn Cerny Bilski by 6,352 (57.2 percent) to 4,763 (42.9 percent).

He sat on the House Corrections and County Affairs committees. He is affiliated with Rotary International, Lions International, and the Chamber of Commerce.