State Representative Larry Phillips was elected to represent Fannin and Grayson Counties in House District 62 in January 2003. He is Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, and serves on the House committees on Redistricting, General Investigating and Ethics, and Border and Intergovernmental Affairs. In 2009 he was appointed to the interim Legislative Study Committee on Private Participation in Toll Projects. He was most recently appointed chair of the interim Select Committee on Transportation Funding and as a member of the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Select Committee.

He received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University; then attended law school at the University of Houston.  Larry is a partner in the Sherman law firm of Siebman, Burg, Phillips, Smith L.L.P and serves on the Eastern District of Texas Bar Association Board of Directors.