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'''Cynthia Taylor Krier''', known as '''Cyndi Taylor Krier''' (born July 12, 1950), is an [[attorney]], [[lobbyist]], and [[Republican Party|Republican]] former[[ politician]] in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. She represented District 26 in the Texas State Senate from 1985  to 1993 and as the administrative judge of populous Bexar County from 1993 to 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bexar.org/commct/cmpct4/History/Elected_Officials/Past_County_Judges/past_county_judges.htm|title=Past County Judges of Bexar County|publisher=bexar.org|accessdate=September 17, 2011}}</ref> Her husband, attorney Joseph Roland "Joe" Krier (born 1946), is a former long-term president of the Greater San Antonio [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=ctk>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/members/texas_senators/Public/Texas_Senate_71.pdf|title=Cyndi Taylor Krier|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=September 17, 2011}}</ref

'''Cynthia Taylor Krier''', known as '''Cyndi Taylor Krier''' (born July 12, 1950), is an [[attorney]], [[lobbyist]], and [[Republican Party|Republican]] former[[ politician]] in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. She represented District 26 in the Texas State Senate from 1985  to 1993 and as the administrative judge of populous Bexar County from 1993 to 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bexar.org/commct/cmpct4/History/Elected_Officials/Past_County_Judges/past_county_judges.htm|title=Past County Judges of Bexar County|publisher=bexar.org|accessdate=September 17, 2011}}</ref> Her husband, attorney Joseph Roland "Joe" Krier (born 1946), is a former long-term president of the Greater San Antonio [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=ctk>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/members/texas_senators/Public/Texas_Senate_71.pdf|title=Cyndi Taylor Krier|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=September 17, 2011}}</ref>

==Background==​

==Background==

Krier was born in Beeville, a small town in Bee County in south Texas to Robert Stevens Taylor (1914–1978) and the former Mary McGuffin (1916–2002). Her parents divorced when she was eight years of age, and she relocated with her mother to Dinero, an unincorporated community in Live Oak County near George West, Texas.<ref name=krier>[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00110/utsa-00110p1.html A Guide to the Cyndi Taylor Krier Papers],  [[University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries (UTSA Libraries)]] Special Collections.</ref> There, her maternal grandfather and then her grandmother served as postmaster. That post office has since been closed because of the lack of population in Dinero.  Krier's mother was for thirty years a postal employee in Beeville. In 2008, on the recommendation of then Republican [[U.S. Representative]] Lamar S. Smith and the Texas congressional delegation, the post office 10250 John Saunders Road in San Antonio was named for Cynthia Krier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lamarsmith.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=196901|title=Congressman Smith on the Cyndi Taylor Krier Post Office Bill, March 5, 2008|publisher=lamarsmith.house.gov|accessdate=September 17, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Krier was born in Beeville, a small town in Bee County in south Texas to Robert Stevens Taylor (1914–1978) and the former Mary McGuffin (1916–2002). Her parents divorced when she was eight years of age, and she relocated with her mother to Dinero, an unincorporated community in Live Oak County near George West, Texas.<ref name=krier>[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00110/utsa-00110p1.html A Guide to the Cyndi Taylor Krier Papers],  [[University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries (UTSA Libraries)]] Special Collections.</ref> There, her maternal grandfather and then her grandmother served as postmaster. That post office has since been closed because of the lack of population in Dinero.  Krier's mother was for thirty years a postal employee in Beeville. In 2008, on the recommendation of then Republican [[U.S. Representative]] Lamar S. Smith and the Texas congressional delegation, the post office 10250 John Saunders Road in San Antonio was named for Cynthia Krier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lamarsmith.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=196901|title=Congressman Smith on the Cyndi Taylor Krier Post Office Bill, March 5, 2008|publisher=lamarsmith.house.gov|accessdate=September 17, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>​