Grier Raggio was born on his grandparents’ farm in the Texas Hill Country. When his father came back from World War II, the family moved to Dallas. As attorneys, Grier’s parents were passionate civil liberties advocates, fighting racial discrimination and inequality.

Grier was inspired by his parents’ courageous passion for social justice and spent his early 20’s fighting for Constitutional rights for all citizens in the civil rights movement in Louisiana and Mississippi. After law school, Grier worked as a Legal Aid attorney, giving the poorest citizens access to legal representation.

Grier is an entrepreneur and small business owner who knows how to weather tough financial times. Growing a small business requires pragmatism and a strong sense of fiscal responsibility, qualities Grier believes are necessary to improve the American and North Texas economies.

America has important work to do that will not be accomplished without working together and fighting the corrupting influence of special interests. Congressman Pete Sessions is a career politician who has put scoring political points with party insiders and special interests over fighting for North Texas families. Grier vows to fight against the special interests and for the families of the 32^nd Congressional District.

Grier is married to Dallas County Civil District Judge Lorraine Raggio. The have three adult daughters and two beautiful grandchildren.  

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