Before he was a lawmaker, Diego Bernal was a working musician — he's released three albums.
Bernal grew up in San Antonio, went to law school at the University of Michigan, and came home to work as a civil rights attorney for MALDEF. He served on San Antonio's City Council, where he wrote the state's toughest payday-loan regulation and passed the city's non-discrimination ordinance, before winning his Texas House seat in a 2015 special election. He's now vice chair of the House Public Education Committee and is running for re-election unopposed in 2026.
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Bernal’s take on Texas values
Bernal was the only San Antonio state legislator to testify at a 2021 congressional hearing opposing Texas's voting restrictions, calling the state's voter-fraud claims 'a phantom wrong' given only 155 prosecutions out of tens of millions of votes cast. [San Antonio Report]