List of Poets Laureate

• 1932-1934 - Judd Mortimer Lewis
• 1934-1936 - Aline T. Michaelis
• 1936-1939 - Grace Noll Crowell
  Grace Noll Crowell
  Grace Noll Crowell was an American poet, author of 36 books of inspirational verse and 5,000 poems. Her work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1939-1941 - Lexie Dean Robertson
  Lexie Dean Robertson
  Lexie Dean Robertson was a teacher and award-winning Poet Laureate of Texas from 1939 to 1941. She grew up in Canton, Texas, the daughter of teachers, and married a fellow student at North Texas State Normal College , J. F. Robertson, in 1911. The couple settled in Rising Star in 1920...
  
  
• 1941-1943 - Nancy Richey Ranson
• 1943-1945 - Dollilee Davis Smith
• 1945-1947 - David Riley Russell
• 1947-1949 - Aline B. Carter
  Aline B. Carter
  Aline B. Carter was a Texas poet and humanitarian, Poet Laureate of Texas from 1947 through 1949. She also served as a vice-president of the Poetry Society of Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1949-1951 - Carlos Ashley
• 1951-1953 - Arthur M. Sampley
• 1953-1955 - Mildred Lindsey Raiborn
• 1955-1957 - Pierre Bernard Hill
• 1957-1959 - Margaret Royalty Edwards
• 1959-1961 - J. V. Chandler
• 1961 - Lorena Simon
• 1962 - Marvin Davis Winsett
• 1963 - Gwendolyn Bennett Pappas
• 1964-1965 - Jenny Lind Porter
• 1966 - Bessie Maas Rowe
• 1967 - William. E. Bard
• 1968 - Kathryn Henry Harris
• 1969-1970 - Anne B. Marely
• 1970-1971 - Robby K. Mitchell
• 1971-1972 - Terry Fontenot
• 1972-1973 - Mrs. Clark Gresham
• 1973-1974 - Violette Newton
• 1974-1975 - Lila Todd O'Neil
• 1975-1976 - Ethel Osborn Hill
• 1976-1977 - Florice Stripling Jeffers
• 1977-1978 - Ruth Carruth
• 1978-1979 - Patsy Stodghill
• 1979-1980 - Dorothy B. Elfstroman
• 1980-1981 - Weems S. Dykes
• 1982-1983 - William D. Barney
• 1987-1988 - Ruth E. Reuther
• 1988-1989 - Vassar Miller
  Vassar Miller
  Vassar Miller was a writer and poet.Miller was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of real estate invester Jesse G. Miller. She began writing as a child, composing on a typewriter due to the cerebral palsy which affected her speech and movement. She attended the University of Houston, receiving...
  
  
• 1993-1995 - Mildred Baass
• 2000 - James Hoggard
• 2001 - Walter McDonald
• 2003 - Jack Elliott Myers
  Jack Elliott Myers
  Jack Elliott Myers , was an American poet and educator. He was Texas Poet Laureate in 2003, and served on the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas for more than 30 years. He was director of creative writing at SMU from 2001 through 2009...
  
  
• 2004 - Cleatus Rattan
• 2005 - Alan Birkelbach
• 2006 - Red Steagall
  Red Steagall
  Russell Steagall is a multitalented showbusiness personality whose career has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe...
  
  
• 2007 - Steven Fromholz
  Steven Fromholz
  Steven Fromholz is an entertainer, a singer and songwriter who was Poet Laureate of Texas in 2007.-Biography:Born in Temple, Texas, Fromholz began performing while he was serving in the United States Navy during the 1960s. After leaving the Navy, he teamed with Dan McCrimmon to create the group...
  
  
• 2008 - Larry D. Thomas
  Larry D. Thomas
  Larry D. Thomas is an American poet. He was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, and in 2009 was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• 2009 - Paul Ruffin
• 2010 - Karla K. Morton
• 2011 - David M. Parsons
• 2012 (projected) Norman Kaye