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Cornyn is a graduate of Trinity University and St. Mary’s School of Law (both in [[San Antonio]] in Bexar County) and earned a Masters of Law from the [[University of Virginia]] Law School in Charlottesville. He was a state district court judge in Bexar County from 1985 to 1991. In 1990, Cornyn was elected to the Texas Supreme Court. In 1998, he was elected state attorney general. After Republican Senator Phil Gramm announced his retirement Cornyn entered the race to succeed him, and defeated the Democratic nominee, [[Mayor]] Ron Kirk of [[Dallas]], a liberal [[African-American]]. He was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2008 and in 2014, defeated conservatives [[Steve Stockman]] and [[Dwayne Stovall]] in the Republican senatorial primary for his third six-year term.

Cornyn is a graduate of Trinity University and St. Mary’s School of Law (both in [[San Antonio]] in Bexar County) and earned a Masters of Law from the [[University of Virginia]] Law School in Charlottesville. He was a state district court judge in Bexar County from 1985 to 1991. In 1990, Cornyn was elected to the Texas Supreme Court. In 1998, he was elected state attorney general. After Republican Senator Phil Gramm announced his retirement Cornyn entered the race to succeed him, and defeated the Democratic nominee, [[Mayor]] Ron Kirk of [[Dallas]], a liberal [[African-American]]. He was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2008 and in 2014, defeated conservatives [[Steve Stockman]] and [[Dwayne Stovall]] in the Republican senatorial primary for his third six-year term.

In the primary scheduled for March 3, 2020, Cornyn will face businessman Mark Spencer Yancey (born September 26, 1957), a largely unknown conservative grass-roots candidate from [[Dallas]] who is uncommitted to special interest groups and calls himself a "Common Sense Republican."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voteformark.com/meet-mark/|title=Meet Mark Yancey|date=December 27, 2019}}</ref> Yancey faces a herculean task because of Cornyn's high name recognition among voters. The Republican nominee will face a Democratic senatorial candidate in the pending general election on November 3, 2020.

In the primary scheduled for March 3, 2020, Cornyn will face businessman [[Mark Yancey]], a largely unknown conservative grass-roots candidate from [[Dallas]] who is uncommitted to special interest groups and calls himself a "Common Sense Republican."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voteformark.com/meet-mark/|title=Meet Mark Yancey|date=December 27, 2019}}</ref> Yancey faces a herculean task because of Cornyn's high name recognition among voters. The Republican nominee will face a Democratic senatorial candidate in the pending general election on November 3, 2020.

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