Tano Tijerina
| Tano Eduardo Tijerina | |
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Tijerina in 2010
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| County Judge of Webb County, Texas | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Danny Valdez |
| Constituency | Laredo, Rio Bravo, El Cenizo, Auilares, Botines, Bruni, Callaghan, Darwin, Islitas, La Presa, Laredo Ranchettes, Larga Vista, Las Tiendas, Los Ojuelos, Mirando City, Oilton, Pescadito, Ranchitos Las Lomas, Santo Tomás, and Webb |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 23, 1974 Laredo, Webb County, Texas |
| Nationality | Mexican American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Kimberly Jean Walker Tijerina |
| Relations |
Rosaura Tijerina (aunt by marriage) |
| Children | Four children |
| Parents | Cayetano, III, and Rosalinda Flores Tijerina |
| Residence | Laredo, Texas |
| Alma mater |
J. W. Nixon High School |
| Occupation | Former baseball pitcher |
| Religion | Non-denominational Christian |
Rosaura Tijerina (aunt by marriage)
J. W. Nixon High School
Navarro College
Tano Eduardo Tijerina (born June 23, 1974) is a rancher and businessman from his native Laredo, Texas, who is the County Judge of Webb County in South Texas, United States. On January 1, 2015, he became the 23rd person to hold the elected office since Webb County was established in 1848. For five years beginning in 1993, Tijerina was a baseball player for minor-league teams of the Milwaukee Brewers.
A Laredo native, Tijerina is one of two sons of Cayetano Tijerina, III, and Rosalinda Flores, educators in Webb County. His brother is Carlos Tijerina. Tijerina's grandfather, Cayetano "Tito" Tijerina, Jr. (1919–2014), was a United States Marine sharpshooter in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II and for forty-six years an employee of the United States Postal Service in Laredo. He and his late wife, Dora, had fifteen children. His aunt by marriage, Rosaura Palacios "Wawi" Tijerina, the wife of Tijerina's uncle, Omar, is a Laredo lawyer and former educator who has served since 2007 as the Precinct 2 Webb County Commissioner, one of four positions, along with the county judge, that governs the county by handling most government business outside the Laredo city limits.
While in high school, Tijerina worked in the early 1990s for H-E-B grocery and a fence company in Laredo.
In 1992, Tijerina graduated from J. W. Nixon High School, where he played baseball for the Nixon Mustangs under coach Butch Flores. Tijerina was named to the Class 5A All-State team and played in the Texas High School North–South All-Star game in the Astrodome. He thereafter enrolled at the two-year Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.
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