 Robert Eckels

Robert Allen Eckels (born March 14, 1957) is a lawyer and businessman from his native Houston, Texas, who was from 1983 to 1995 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives and from 1995 to 2007 the county judge of Harris County.Eckels' father, Robert Young "Bob" Eckels, Jr., was a trustee of the Houston Independent School District who in 1972 was elected the Precinct 3 county commissioner, a position that he filled until shortly before his death on Christmas Eve in 1989.