Steven Shook

Steven Shook grew up in Fort Worth in a family of health care providers and small business owners, then built his own career caring for critically ill and injured patients.¹ His campaign dates that work to 2009, while his professional qualifications identify him as a nurse practitioner.¹

His education began with an associate degree in nursing at Tarrant County College, followed by a bachelor's in nursing at Texas Tech and a master's in nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington.² In another voter questionnaire, he lists registered nursing work at Texas Health Resources from 2009 to 2019 and a nurse practitioner role at the Lung and Sleep Center of North Texas beginning in 2019.³

His campaign proposes a gradual transition to universal health care, wider prescription drug negotiation, limits on medication costs and stronger rural hospitals.¹ He also supports protecting Social Security and Medicare from benefit cuts or privatization and expanding mental health care and crisis intervention.¹

Shook favors modernizing the electric grid, requiring data centers to contribute to infrastructure costs, and investing in public schools and workforce training.²¹ He calls for stronger congressional oversight of the executive branch and judicial independence.² The Democrat faces Republican incumbent Brandon Gill and Libertarian Phil Gray.²