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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Friday appointed former Republican state legislator Tommy Williams to lead Texas A&M University while they find someone to replace former president Mark A. Welsh III, who resigned last month.

Williams, a 1978 Texas A&M alum, spent more than a decade in the Texas Legislature, worked as the system’s top government relations official and advised Gov. Greg Abbott on fiscal matters before retiring in 2019.

His appointment follows several turbulent weeks at Texas A&M that came after state Rep. Brian Harrison posted a video on X of a student confronting a professor over gender-identity content in a children’s

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