URSULA PARKS
Ursula Parks is a fiscal policy and budget expert with over 25 years of experience with the Texas legislature. She served on the Legislative Budget Board staff from 1993 to 2018, including six years as the agency's director. During her tenure, Ms. Parks worked as a budget analyst, a budget team manager, an assistant director, and the agency's deputy director before being appointed director in 2012. Ms. Parks has developed budget and policy recommendations for state agencies and institutions within all state government functions. For much of her tenure, her work concentrated specifically in the area of public education finance. She is an expert in big-picture state fiscal policy and in the details of developing, implementing, and monitoring state appropriations. Ms. Parks is a life-long Austinite and holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Religious Studies from The American University.