Meet Vilma
Vilma Luna represented District 33 (Corpus Christi) in the Texas House of Representatives from 1993 until 2006.
She draws on her years of legal and legislative experience to focus on issues involving state budget and revenue, health care policy and finance, and a wide range of business and general government policy, legislative, and regulatory issues.
Luna was the first Hispanic woman ever elected to the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi.
During her tenure in the House, she served on the Appropriations, Ways and Means and Calendars committees, and was appointed to the Legislative Budget Board. She spearheaded legislation dealing with the state budget and tax revenue, children’s issues, local court efficiency, special education, tax reductions, coastal management and protection, teacher and state employee pay raises, health care, at-risk youth programs, economic development and consumer protection. Luna received her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1985.
Vilma maintained a private law practice before transitioning to a lobby practice in 2006.
Vilma worked with HillCo Partners until she formed Vilma Luna LLC in January 2020. Vilma received her Bachelor of Social Work from Southwest Texas State University in 1979. She worked as a Child Protection Services case worker prior to attending law school.
Luna has won numerous awards and recognition from professional and civic organizations.
Some achievements include Southwest Texas State University’s prestigious Walter Richter Humanitarian Award (1997), and most recently the Carolyn S. Lohman Advocacy Leadership Award from Texas A & M’s College of Education and Human Development (2019). Luna currently volunteers with local nonprofit and professional organizations, her church and the Diocese of Austin.