Mark M. Shelton


Mark McGregor Shelton, is a pediatrician at the Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives. From 2009 to 2013, he represented House District 97 in Tarrant County. He is a graduate of Arlington's Lamar High School, and received a BS from Baylor University. Shelton completed his medical studies at the Texas A&M University College of Medicine.

Background

Shelton grew up in Arlington, Texas. Part of a family of Scouters, he earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
Shelton has served as the director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Program at the Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, since 1988.
He has been involved in the community. He has served as a volunteer with the Longhorn Council of the Boy Scouts, the Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth, and board member of the Lena Pope Home.