Joe Moody (politician)
Joseph E. Moody is a lawyer from El Paso, Texas, who is Speaker Pro Tempore of the Texas House of Representatives. He has represented District 78, based entirely in El Paso County, since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Moody previously represented District 78 for the single term from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, he unseated the Republican Dee Margo, now the Mayor of El Paso, a nominally nonpartisan position.
Moody defeated Margo in the general elections of both 2008 and 2012, but Margo prevailed in the 2010 contest, with lowered turnout in a mid-term election.
Moody won his fifth nonconsecutive term in the House in the general election held on November 6, 2018. With 31,361 votes and buoyed by the U.S. Senate candidacy of Beto O'Rourke, also an El Paso native, Moody overwhelmed the Republican candidate, Jeffrey Lane, who finished with 16,741 votes.
