Kirk Preston Watson is an attorney and a politician. Currently, he is the Mayor of Austin TX.Previously, Watson was a Texas Senator from 2007 to 2020. Before that, he served a previous term as Mayor of Austin from 1997 to 2001.Watson received his B.A. in Political Science and his J.D. from Baylor University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Baylor Law Review. He clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.