Cable Leadership in Texas

Meet the TCA team

WALT BAUM

President

Meredyth Fowler

Vice President & General Counsel

RYAN WEISEMAN

Legislative Director

TCA President Walt Baum joined TCA in September 2018 after serving as executive director of the Texas Public Power Association. He has a long resume working on public policy issues, including telecommunications and energy issues, for the Association of Electric Companies Texas and as chief clerk of the Texas House of Representatives State Affairs Committee.


Longtime Texas Capitol staffer Ryan Weiseman became TCA’s legislative director in January 2017 after 10 years of bipartisan legislative staff experience, working for Sen. Kevin Eltife and Rep. Tracy King and as budget analyst for the Senate Committee on Finance, director of both the Partnership Advisory Commission and the Joint Oversight Committee on Government Facilities, and as clerk of the House Committee on Pensions and Investments.


Meredyth Fowler is the newest team member, joining the TCA staff in September as vice president and general counsel. Fowler most recently spent almost seven years as legislative counsel for the Independent Bankers Association of Texas. She also worked a year as a lobbyist with Tuggey, Rosenthal, Pauerstein, Sandoloski & Agather LLP. Inside the Texas Capitol, she was an attorney and policy analyst for then House Speaker Joe Straus for almost seven years. She also previously served as general counsel for state Sen. Kevin Eltife, chief of staff and general counsel for state Rep. Peggy Hamric, and a legislative assistant for state Rep. Brian McCall.

News: Meredyth Fowler Joins the Texas Cable Association

October 8, 2022


Texas Capitol veteran Meredyth Fowler has joined the staff of the Texas Cable Association (TCA) as general counsel. She also will be part of TCA’s governmental affairs team, which includes TCA President Walt Baum and Ryan Weiseman, legislative director.


“The Texas Cable Association is fortunate to welcome someone with Meredyth’s depth of public affairs experience to our team,” said TCA President Walt Baum. “Her broad-based background working issues from both inside and outside of the Capitol will be valuable as we educate and deliver the Texas cable industry’s messages to policymakers.”


“I am thrilled to join the Texas Cable Association,” Fowler said. “The TCA staff and cable company members are so well respected at the Texas Capitol, and I am excited to help continue the great work on behalf of the Texas cable industry.”


Fowler most recently spent almost seven years as legislative counsel for the Independent Bankers Association of Texas. She also worked a year as a lobbyist with Tuggey, Rosenthal, Pauerstein, Sandoloski & Agather LLP.


Inside the Texas Capitol, she was an attorney and policy analyst for then House Speaker Joe Straus for almost seven years. She also previously served as general counsel for state Sen. Kevin Eltife, chief of staff and general counsel for state Rep. Peggy Hamric, and a legislative assistant for state Rep. Brian McCall.


A graduate of Texas State University, Fowler earned her juris doctorate at South Texas College of Law in Houston.

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