Clardy was defeated by Joanne Shofner by 63% to 37% on March 5, 2024, in the Republican primary runoff for the Texas House of Representatives for the 11th District.
[3] Clardy is a member of the executive board of the East Texas Boy Scouts of America and the Dean's Circle of the College of Fine Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University.
[1] He is also a Paul P. Harris Fellow at the Nacogdoches Rotary International, a sponsor of the Heartbeat Pregnancy Center, and is active on the alumni board of his alma mater, Abilene Christian University.
In the 2013 legislative session, Clardy joined majorities in the House and Texas Senate to support SB5, which banned abortions after twenty weeks of gestation, required abortion providers to meet ambulatory surgical center facilities regulations, and required physicians to have admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles of their office.
[4] In 2016, the facilities and admitting privileges portions of the bill were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Whole Woman's Health v.