[1] When Van Taylor vacated his seat in the Texas Senate to run for Congress, Paxton joined the race for District 8 in September 2017.

Paxton won the primary by nine points and narrowly defeated Democratic challenger Mark Phariss in the general election.

[1] In February 2019, Paxton introduced Senate Bill 860, which would grant her husband the power to issue exemptions from securities regulations.

Billed as a consumer protection effort, the proposal would allow approved individuals to serve as investment advisers without registering with the state board.

Angela and Ken Paxton helped to found Stonebriar Community Church, a Christian evangelical megachurch, in Frisco, Texas, in the 1990s.