Glen Robertson

Glen Charles Robertson (born 1959) is an American politician who is the current mayor of Lubbock, Texas, having been first elected on May 12, 2012, and took office a week later.

Robertson is a Republican candidate in the runoff election scheduled for May 24, 2016, for Texas' 19th congressional district seat, which will be vacated in January 2017 by the Republican Randy Neugebauer of Lubbock, who has filled the position since 2003. Robertson faces Jodey Arrington, a former vice chancellor of Texas Tech University and an official in the administraton of former U.S. President George W. Bush. Robertson led a nine-candidate field in the primary election on March 1 with 27,791 (26.7 percent) of the ballots cast, followed by Arrington's 26,980 (26 percent). In third place was Michael Bob Starr, the former commander of Dyess Air Force Base who led handily in Abilene and finished with 22,256 votes (21.4 percent). Laredo surgeon Donald R. May finished fourth with 9,592 votes (9.2 percent).