National and state politics, my family’s well being, figuring out why people do what they do. Drumming, jogging, eating at non-franchise restaurants, listening to music played loudly!!!
Music
Old Genesis, pre-1988 REM, Jayhawks, Bruce Springstein, Son Volt...
Movies
Vertigo - Hitchcock.... To Be or Not to Be – Lubitsch... The Shining – Kubrick.
Television
Dark Shadows... Night Gallery... Mart Hartman, Mary Hartman
Books
Don Quixote by Cervantes... Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins... Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski Sr., Betty Sue Flowers, and Peter M Senge... Crossroads by Leon Jaworski and Dick Schneider.
About me: “My faith in the constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution” – Barbara Jordan.
Joe Jaworski combines a celebrated family tradition of public service with a deep faith in the power of individuals to make a positive difference in their communities.
Jaworski served three terms on the Galveston City Council, where he earned a reputation for insisting on strict financial accountability to hold the line on new taxes while safeguarding vital services. First elected in 2000, he was re-elected in 2002 and then again in 2004 as Mayor Pro-Tem. He stepped down in May 2006 under the city’s term limits law.
In 2005, Jaworski helped lead the team that faced Hurricane Rita and won praise for his role in that region’s emergency preparation and response to the devastating storm.
Born in Houston on the day Texas prepared to mark its 126th year of independence, Jaworski earned his bachelor’s from North Carolina’s Davidson College and his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated in 1991 and won honors for his mock trial work and was elected to the prestigious Order of Barristers.
Jaworski served as law clerk to U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John Brown, practiced maritime law on behalf of numerous shipping and energy companies, and has worked to defend individuals’ rights against special interests throughout his career. He is currently a partner in The Jaworski Law Firm, headquartered in Galveston, and specializes in representing maritime clients in state and federal courts around the country.
A former chairman of the City of Galveston Ethics Commission and a Trustee of both Galveston’s Park Board and Wharves Board, Jaworski is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum and a director of the Texas Lyceum. He is a longtime member of the Galveston County Democratic Party and serves on the board of directors of the Children’s Center. He is also a member of the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Community Service Excellence Committee and has been appointed to UTMB’s BSL-4 Community Liaison Committee, a group of local leaders charged with strengthening communication between the institution and the community about the university’s infectious disease research program and high-containment laboratories.
Jaworski and his wife Rebecca have two children and live in Galveston.
