Kent Sullivan is giving up his robes to be first assistant to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Sullivan, a state District Judge in Houston, was a private practice attorney for 21 years before that. He'll replace Barry McBee, who's leaving to join the University of Texas System. Edward Johnson, at the tender age of 29, is the new executive director of the Texas Building and Procurement Commission. A former House aide, he's been at that agency for three years. He's been the interim ED since January, and the board made it official this week. ERCOT chief Thomas Schrader is leaving that agency. He came on in the wake of a scandal that ended with criminal charges against several ERCOT execs. He'll be replaced in the short term by Sam Jones, who'll be in the top spot until the board finds a new CEO for the power agency. Former state Rep. Patricia Gray, D-Galveston, is joining the University of Houston's Law Center as director of research and external relations; she'll also teach a course there on legislating health policy. Steve Robinson, the former head of the Texas Youth Commission, is joining the Austin office of MGT of America. That consulting firm also employs former Texas prison chief Wayne Scott in its criminal justice practice. Maybe you didn't about the Advisory Board of Athletic Trainers, but the state has one, and it has two new members. Gov. Rick Perry appointed Dr. David Schmidt of San Antonio and David Weir of College Station to that panel. Schmidt has a sports medicine practice and is the team doctor for the Spurs; Weir is a trainer at Texas A&M University. Perry named Dr. Mark Mayberry of Abilene to the Texas Medical Board's district three review committee, and Noe Fernandez of McAllen to the district four panel. Those committees make recommendations on investigations of medical practice and competency. David Allex of Harlingen will stay on the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority; Perry reappointed him. Perry reappointed Samuel Loyd Neal of Corpus Christi and James Maloney of El Paso to the Texas Military Preparedness Commission. And Perry named McKinney attorney Michael Puhl to the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists.