Caitlin Rourk

Caitlin Rourk and her husband, Sasha, are raising two children and three dogs in Central Texas.¹ Sasha is a volunteer emergency medical technician and medic, with service in the Texas State Guard; her own military career has included the Texas Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve.¹

Rourk was raised by public school teachers, and both of her grandfathers served in World War II.¹ She earned a political science degree at the University of Chicago and an MBA at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business.¹ Her campaign says she has lived, worked and served in Central Texas for more than a decade.¹

Commissioned as a U.S. Army military intelligence officer through Officer Candidate School, she worked full time at the Texas National Guard’s Joint Forces Headquarters in Austin.¹ Her assignments supported disaster response, the COVID pandemic, civil unrest operations and border mobilizations.¹ Her civilian career has included energy security and deficit reduction policy work, followed by communications work at Dell Technologies.¹

Rourk lists lower healthcare costs, stronger public schools and child care among her congressional priorities.² Her platform also emphasizes government accountability, community protections around AI, immigration reform and national security.² Her Republican opponent is Chris Gober.³