Mike Bianchi: How did Gators know about Baylor rapist, but Baylor didn't? Baylor head football coach Art Briles talks with the media before the first day of practice for the 2015 season, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Waco, Texas.
â Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) November 1, 2013. In November, 2014 Ken Paxton became the 51st Attorney General of Texas after over a year of campaigning to earn the votes of Texans across the state.
Abbott was only the second Republican to serve as Attorney General of Texas since Reconstruction. Prior to assuming the office of attorney general, Abbott was a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, a position to which he was initially appointed in 1995 by then-Governor George W. Bush.