Political People and their Moves

David Schenck, deputy Texas attorney general for legal counsel, is taking a post with Dykema and will work in the litigation division in that law firm's Dallas office.

Gov. Rick Perry appointed John Swanson of Frisco to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company Board of Directors. Swanson is president and CEO of Republic Energy Inc. Perry also appointed T. Craig Benson of Austin to the Interagency Council for Genetic Services. Benson is president of Myriad RBM Inc. and founding director of the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation.

House Speaker Joe Straus appointed Dallas attorney and business consultant Tom Luce to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Oversight Committee. Luce was a founding partner and managing partner of the law firm of Hughes & Luce, LLP until his retirement from the firm in 1997.

Deaths: Former Rep. Ernestine Glossbrenner, D-Alice, a high school math teacher who became chairwoman of the House Public Education Committee. She was 79.