Texas Education Code - EDUC § 7.107. Officers

(a) The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint the chair from among the membership of the board.  The chair serves a term of two years.

(b) At the board's first regular meeting after the election and qualification of new members, the board shall organize, adopt rules of procedure, and elect by separate votes a vice chair and a secretary.

(c) A person who serves two consecutive terms as chair is ineligible to again serve as chair until four years have elapsed since the expiration of the second term.