Departing Abbott aide handled crises from Hurricane Harvey cleanup to Dallas airshow crash

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Luis J. Saenz, the first Hispanic chief of staff to a Texas governor and the longest-serving, has survived more than five years in the grueling job as Gov....

“You’re in the middle of it all, trying to try to help people build back and so it was daunting to come in at that point,” he said.

Luis Saenz, outgoing chief of staff for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, meets with members of his staff, from left, Sarah Hicks, director of budget and policy; Adriana Cruz, director of Office of Economic Development; and Jordan Hale, deputy chief of staff. ORG XMIT: 10060719A “And my brother-in-law said, ‘You’re making me so nervous, why don’t you go back to Austin?’ So the next day, I drove back to Austin because I was just on the phone all day.”Saenz brought to it, though, a high-powered list of friends and contacts. An Alice native who lettered in three sports at Carrizo Springs High, he got interested in politics as a student at San Antonio’s St. Mary University.

Luis J. Saenz, the first Hispanic chief of staff to a Texas governor and the longest-serving, survived more than five years in the grueling job. On his last day as Gov. Greg Abbott's "on-call guy," Saenz holds an image taken in 2017 when Abbott introduced Saenz and other senior staff members during a press conference.

Saenz and his wife, a former teacher, have lived in Austin since mid-2000 when, through his friend John Colyandro, he got a job with the then-state comptroller, then known as Carole Keeton Rylander.

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