Troy E. Nehls

Troy E. Nehls was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, on April 7, 1968, and graduated from Dodgeland High School in 1986. He holds a B.A. from Liberty University and an M.S. from the University of Houston-Downtown. He served in the Wisconsin Army National Guard and the United States Army Reserve; his House biography says he spent 21 years in the Army Reserve. He was a police officer and, in Fort Bend County, Texas, a deputy constable from 1998 to 2002 and a deputy sheriff from 2002 to 2004.

Nehls was constable in Fort Bend County from 2005 to 2012 and sheriff from 2013 to 2020. He was elected as a Republican to the 117th Congress and to the two succeeding Congresses, and has served since January 3, 2021. He sits on the Judiciary and Transportation and Infrastructure committees and the select subcommittee on January 6, 2021.