Not Guilty: Former Rep. Borris Miles, D-Houston, who'd been accused of brandishing a gun at a couple of parties. Miles lost his reelection bid after publicity about the incidents.

Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, left the KLGates law firm for Brown McCarroll.

Angela Hale, a former TV reporter who's been employed as an advisor to Attorney General Greg Abbott, is the new communications director for House Speaker Joe Straus.

Joanne Molina is the new deputy executive commissioner for social services at the state's Health and Human Services Commission. She'd been an associate commission in the agency's office of family services.

Jim Lee resigned from the Teacher Retirement System of Texas board. Gov. Rick Perry named Linus Wright of Dallas to chair the board in Lee's place. Wright had been vice chairman.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has a new general counsel: Stuart Platt, who's currently the U.S. Magistrate for the

Western District of Texas in the Midland/Odessa Division.

Andrew Smith joins the University Health System in San Antonio, heading government relations and public policy; he's been doing similar work for the City of San Antonio.

Trey Blocker is going solo, hanging out a lobby shingle with his own name on it.

Anthony Gutierrez is the new deputy executive director at the Texas Democratic Party. He's been a regional field director there and worked on former U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson's unsuccessful reelection campaign.

Department of Corrections: We botched Amadeo Saenz' name in last week's edition. He's the head of the Texas Department of Transportation. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Deaths: Dallas developer and political financier Trammell Crow, who started building commercial buildings in the 1950s and kept going through the 1990s. He was 94 and suffered from Alzheimer's Disease.