Texas. Legislature. Senate. Sergeant-at-Arms Office.

The Executive Director of Humanities Texas, Michael L. Gillette earned his BA in government and Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum (1972-1991), directing the Library’s Oral History Program (1976-1991). In 1991 Gillette moved to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., as Director of the Center for Legislative Archives. In this position he was responsible for the official records of the U. S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate. He joined the staff of Humanities Texas as Executive Director in 2003.

The Sergeant-at-Arms Office of the Texas Senate is responsible for decorum in the Senate chamber, chamber security, and managing the messengers and pages employed by the Capitol. One department in the Office is the Sergeant’s Clipping Service, which distributes news clippings to the Texas Senate

Sources : Humanities Texas. Staff Biographies. http://www.humanitiestexas.org/about/staff/bios.php (accessed July 13, 2010).

The Texas State Senate. Texas State Senate News: May 24, 2007. http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/Senate/archives/Arch07/p052307a.htm (accessed July 13, 2010).

From the guide to the Gillette, Michael L. Collection 82-388., 1972-1974, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)