Tom Sell

Tom Sell met his wife Kyla in college, and they raised four children in Lubbock; they are now grandparents.¹ The couple also mentors students at Texas Tech’s Davis College of Agriculture.¹ Sell remains involved in his family’s farm and ranch operation alongside his work in agricultural policy.²

Sell holds Texas Tech degrees in agribusiness and law; he earned his agribusiness degree in 1995.³² As deputy chief of staff for the House Agriculture Committee, he helped develop legislation including the 2002 Farm Bill and the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000.⁴³ He also served as director of intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Agriculture.³

Sell returned to Lubbock in 2003 to pursue his Texas Tech law degree and co founded Combest, Sell & Associates in 2005 with former Representative Larry Combest.⁵ The firm represents agricultural clients in Washington; a 2024 federal filing lists Sell as one of its lobbyists.⁵⁶ He was a 2022 distinguished alumnus honoree of Texas Tech’s Davis College.⁷ His community work has included chairing the board of Breedlove Foods, an international hunger relief organization.³

He faces Democrat Kyle Rable in November.⁸ Sell’s campaign emphasizes stronger border controls, expanded energy production, gun rights, national defense and agriculture, presenting him as a supporter of President Trump’s policy agenda.⁹