[2] In history, Dunnam will be best known as "the leader of the Democrats in the lower chamber, distinguished for years as the sharpest and most persistent thorn in the conservative paw," as the New York Times reported in November, 2010.

[3] He is acknowledged as engineering the "Killer Ds" walkout to Ardmore, Oklahoma in 2003, to postpone consideration of Tom DeLay's mid-decade redistricting plan.

Though he lacked a chairmanship or even a seat on a powerful committee, Jim Dunnam was big enough to pass two of the session's biggest and best bills: charter-school reform and tougher restrictions on open containers of alcohol in cars.

In a late November 2008 meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, Dunnam set in motion a series of events that would ultimately remove Craddick from power.

[3] Dunnam remains active in the political sphere, including playing keyboards for the last decade with The Bad Precedents, the Official Band of the Texas Legislature.

Less than 5 years after being licensed as a lawyer in Texas, Dunnam sued the Waco newspaper, television station KWTX, and an ambulance company on behalf of Special Agent John Risenhoover and the families of deceased ATF agents for their wrongful deaths arising out of the media's role in tipping off David Koresh to the raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco.

Dunnam again successful argued for the novel application of the law in a case involving the shooting of Waco Police Officer Bill Biles by a minor who had obtained a handgun through a stray sale at a local pawnshop.

[13] Notably, both the ATF and Biles lawsuits, along with another of Dunnam's cases involving a successful jury trial related to crop-dusting overspray, are all used as part of the curriculum in the nationally recognized Practice Court classes at Baylor Law School.

[14] Dunnam is currently the lead lawyer in the nationally recognized Title IX litigation involving 15 female students who were sexually assaulted while at Baylor University.