Who Governs — the offices that run Deer Park and how they connect.

reads: the city’s own pages & state statute — charter citations arrive as they are confirmed

Who governs

Who runs this town — and who answers to whom?

Every office in this chart comes from the town’s own record. Click an office to see what it does, in plain language, and where that authority is written down. Solid lines are who elects, appoints, or supervises whom; dashed lines are other working relationships — who recommends, coordinates, confirms, or presides.

New to how city governments are structured? Read The Forms of Local Government — the four recognized forms, the Texas layer, and where Deer Park’s fits.

Who holds these offices right now — every name from Deer Park’s own record, each one traced to the document that put them there. Where a name is a link, select it to read what the office does.

MayorCity of Deer Park — City Council agenda, 2026-08-18 (Legistar event 3339)Read from the agenda PDF's own header block, which lists all seven members of the sitting body.
Sherry Garrison Council Member, Position 1City of Deer Park — City Council agenda, 2026-08-18 (Legistar event 3339)Read from the agenda PDF's own header block, which lists all seven members of the sitting body.
TJ Haight Council Member, Position 2City of Deer Park — City Council agenda, 2026-08-18 (Legistar event 3339)Read from the agenda PDF's own header block, which lists all seven members of the sitting body.
Tommy Ginn Council Member, Position 3City of Deer Park — City Council agenda, 2026-08-18 (Legistar event 3339)Read from the agenda PDF's own header block, which lists all seven members of the sitting body.
Justin League Council Member, Position 4City of Deer Park — City Council agenda, 2026-08-18 (Legistar event 3339)Read from the agenda PDF's own header block, which lists all seven members of the sitting body.
Eric Ripley Council Member, Position 5City of Deer Park — City Council agenda, 2026-08-18 (Legistar event 3339)Read from the agenda PDF's own header block, which lists all seven members of the sitting body.
Georgette Ford Council Member, Position 6City of Deer Park — City Council agenda, 2026-08-18 (Legistar event 3339)Read from the agenda PDF's own header block, which lists all seven members of the sitting body.
City Managerthe city’s own page, as of 2026-08-06
City Secretarythe city’s own page, as of 2026-08-06

An office with no certified holder is simply absent from this list — nothing here is inferred.

In plain language: this is the chain of authority in Deer Park — who put each office there, drawn from the city’s own pages and state law. Every box and every line carries a locator back into a source. You could check any of them yourself.

Technical: offices and relationships render live from civic.gov_positions_current / civic.gov_edges_current — verified rows only. An office or connection whose source is not yet confirmed does not appear here at all; it stays dark until it carries a locator. Tree edges: elects, appoints, supervises. Dashed cross-links: recommends, coordinates, confirms, presides. Locators are page-level (the city’s own pages) where stated; exact charter-section citations arrive with the Analyst’s hardening pass and replace them row by row.