A native of Abilene, Texas, Commissioner Carrillo has worked as a geologist, geophysicist, college professor, attorney and judge. He first entered elected office in 2000, when he was elected to the Abilene City Council. He was later elected County Judge of his home county – the post he held when Governor Rick Perry appointed him to the Texas Railroad Commission in February 2003.
Commissioner Carrillo helps lead the state agency that oversees the Texas energy sector -- the oil and gas, pipeline and surface mining industries. In November 2004, he won his first statewide election garnering almost four million votes and securing a six-year term of office. From September 2003 to September 2005, he served as Chairman of the Railroad Commission.
Carrillo served as Chairman of the Texas Energy Planning Council that created a Texas Energy Plan to help ensure that Texas remains the premier energy producing state in the nation. Carrillo serves as the Governor’s representative to the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission and was recently elected Second Vice Chair of that national organization. He serves on the Outer Continental Shelf advisory board to the Secretary of the Interior. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Victor and his wife, Joy, have been married 21 years and have three daughters – Laura, Christina, and Grace.
Commissioner Carrillo is the son of a Mexican immigrant, the first in his family to have gone to college, and the highest-ranking elected Latino official in Texas.
Commissioner Victor Carrillo received his J.D. from the Bates College of Law, University of Houston in 1994.
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