Experience Matters.
City Council Service: Nathan served on Anna’s City Council from 2012 to 2020, including roles as Mayor Pro Tem and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem. During his tenure, he played a significant role in city planning, such as the 2025 and 2050 Plans, and was instrumental in building critical infrastructure like Fire Station 1 and the new City Hall.
8.5
Experienced Leadership
Years in City Council
Nathan spearheaded the push for the Anna Community Library in 2014 and continued his support by serving on both The Friends of the Library Board (2018-2024) and the Foundation Library Board (2024-present). He also contributed to securing the bond for the library’s construction.
Nathan represented Anna on the North Central Texas Council of Governments from 2012 to 2014, showcasing his commitment to regional collaboration.
During a transitional period when Anna was without a City Manager, Nathan joined the Mayor and another Council member in ensuring city services and public works continued to operate effectively.
A devoted family man, Nathan has been married to his high school sweetheart for 32 years and is a proud father of two Anna High School graduates. His wife’s inspiring battle and victory over cancer reflect their family’s resilience and determination.
Nathan has over 25 years of professional experience in sales and management, including roles at Huffhines Auto, Ford, and his current 17-year position at O'Reilly's.
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Years on the Library Bpard
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Years on North Central Texas Council of Governments
2
Roles filled; City Council and City Manager
32
Years married
25
Years in the auto industry
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Nathan Bryan
Experience Matters
Nathan Bryan means consistency, tenure, dedication, loyalty, and experience in every facet of his life. In his personal life, professional life, and political life, Nathan Bryan's impressive experience matters. Choose a candidate with a measurable loyalty to Anna with Nathan Bryan.
Location
Date/ Time/ Location for Voting
The next City of Anna General Election will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2025, to elect a City Council Place 2, Place 4, and Place 6.
Vote at City Hall 120 W. 7th St. Anna, TX 75409
2025 Candidates in Ballot Order
Tenure
By Aubre; Murphy for Nathan Bryan Place 2 (Facebook Post) .
Nathan Bryan Tenure City Council Place 2
Place 2- City Council Nathan Bryan ☆☆☆☆☆ "TENURE"
Tenure is a language, like 'Loyalty', "Ambition," and, "Purpose," each gathers slowly, meaningfully, purposefully, over time, affecting their intended audience with straightforward selflessness, conjoined to a Cause they are assigned to.
Tenure is valuable insight about a person's true nature; who is reliable and disciplined; who speaks an impeccable word; who is here today and a decade ago, a City Council Member for 8.5 years, married to his wife 32 years, working at O'Reilly's for 17 years, in the car industry 30+ years.
Tenure tells a story about a candidate whose achievements, dedication, and decisions, cannot fit into a single post or landing page, nor do they exist because of an election but exist in our everyday lives; having done the hard work so these candidates have a place to send their voters and a job once the library's built; all on the back of Nathan Bryan's successful dedication to a town he loves, a town he represents as a neighbor, not a politician.
Tenure is one of the most valuable commodities of a City Council Member, who was serving the Anna community when Anna's population was 8,000 and continued to serve when Anna's population doubled from 2012-2020; In City Council when a new population needed housing, their kids needed education, their homes needed power and water, and they needed a place to call their home.
Tenure is trust. Here, when Anna had no City Manager, Nathan Bryan was chosen to help fill this position, monitoring and keeping safe our community, chosen because his tenure proved him trustworthy, capable, and willing; because those who needed solutions know Nathan has them.
Tenure, living in the community you serve, should not be required but demanded. Common sense asks, how else will candidates identify, preserve, and protect the Anna "Hometown" charm from its early days when a candidate, during those days, lived in other states? Nathan Bryan was here when the greatest expansion of Anna's population grew to 31,000- spending 2012-2020 In City Council, spending the last ten years fighting to fund, bond, and build the new Library, needing no formal position in City Council to continue the work.
Tenure is historical fact; a measurable, discoverable, unchangeable fact. It is a commitment seen through to its end. Tenure is character, is a promise, is a sacrifice that shows where your ambition describes the kind of person you are. Nathan Bryan chose the Anna community when politics designed a town worth relocating to; whose small-town charm attracts the masses; whose sacrifice meant choosing to build Firehall 1, to build a City Hall to gather our community in, to build a Library that invests into our community's most valuable crowd; our children, families, and local businesses.
Nathan Bryan left City Council by request of his children in 2020, to be part of their final years of high school, leaving behind a legacy of high achievement and proud Tenure. Nathan had no idea that a year later, his beloved wife of Lynn Bryan, would be diagnosed with Cancer.
Between the timeline of his former City Council seat of 8.5 years and his pending re-election on May 3, 2025, a family pulled together to fight cancer together- but not alone. Without asking, and because Nathan Bryan's commitment to Anna matters, the Anna community joined the Bryan family's fight, collecting prayers and resources, carefully waiting for those blessed words, "Cancer Free".
Tenure is a story, an undisputed history, a means to measure the heart of a person. Tenure is purpose, is faith in motion, is a call to solve problems with character, experience, teamwork, and sacrifice. Nathan Bryan's Tenure was built here, in Anna, alongside neighbors, Veterans, Seniors, Anna ISD, and business owners, traveling into unparalleled growth. The learning curve was massive, yet together with fellow City Council members, they learned how to address growth with solutions so successfully, Nathan Bryan was chosen for City Council again and again.
His loyalty to wife and his children gave way to another kind of Tenure, spent on the receiving side of the Anna community's generosity. To be the subject of Anna's kindness, to feel that wave of concern and care, makes every minute spent in service, time spent with family.
If you do not know all these things, if you have not been here all the while, if you have not served here, built buildings here, attracted double our population, solved these problems, and haven't experienced a community that pays it all back when you are facing life-threatening tragedy- then you don't have the gift Nathan Bryan brings to City Council of tenure.
Nathan Bryan isn't asking you to gamble, or risk, or try his leadership on for a spin- he's proven his seat on City Council since 2012. This election is for three years, and by its end of three years from now, at their best they will have found a third of Nathan's Tenure.
Anna City Council, Place 2, should be reserved for Nathan Bryan, but at the very least, if you hadn't known who Nathan Bryan is- now you do.
Choose loyalty, choose experience, choose Tenure. Choose Nathan Bryan - together again.
Aubre Michelle Murphy facebook.com/aubreandjoe annaarts.co annagallery.org warpaintproject.com @on4thstreet.com Anna Art Council Founder #IVOTENATHAN
”He got my family's vote. I am proud to have him Nathan Bryan back. I am glad I got elected to his old seat back in November 2020..”
- Danny Ussery
Nathan was one of the first people we met when we moved here. He has our Vote.
