Marsha Lane Hatley Farney | |
Nationality: | American |
State House: | Texas |
District: | 20th |
Party: | Republican |
Term Start: | January 8, 2013 |
Term End: | January 9, 2017 |
Preceded: | Charles Schwertner |
Succeeded: | Terry Wilson |
Office2: | Member of the Texas Board of Education from the 10th district |
Term Start2: | 2011 |
Term End2: | 2013 |
Preceded2: | Cynthia Dunbar |
Succeeded2: | Tom Maynard |
Birth Date: | 15 December 1958 |
Birth Place: | Place of birth missing Reared in Dallas and Paris, Lamar County, Texas, U.S. |
Residence: | Georgetown Williamson County Texas |
Occupation: | Former educator Businesswoman |
Spouse: | (1) Nelson Louis Gonyaw (married 1976-1995, divorced) (2) William Bryan Farney (married 1999)[1] |
Children: | Ashley Michelle Gonyaw Bules Bryan Paul Gonyaw Drew Farney |
Parents: | Hurshell Hartford Hatley Shirley June Abney Hatley |
Alma Mater: | Texas A&M University–Commerce University of Texas at Austin |
Marsha Lane Hatley Farney (born December 15, 1958)[2] is an American businesswoman and former educator from Georgetown, Texas. From 2013 to 2017, she was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 20, based in Burnet and Milam counties and a portion of northern Williamson County, a suburb of Austin in the central portion of the state.[3]
In her bid for a third term, Farney was unseated in the Republican primary election held on March 1, 2016, by Terry Wilson, who polled 18,754 votes (54.3 percent) to her 15,809 (45.7 percent).[4]