{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Marsha Lane Hatley Farney | image = | caption = | state_house = Texas | district = 20th | party = Republican | term_start = January 8, 2013 | term_end = January 10, 2017 | preceded = Charles Schwertner | succeeded = Terry Wilson | office2 = Member of the Texas Board of Education from the 10th district | term_start2 = 2011 | term_end2 = 2013 | preceded2 = Cynthia Dunbar | succeeded2 = Tom Maynard | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|12|15}} | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | birth_place = Place of birth missing<br /> Reared in Dallas and<br /> Paris, Lamar County, Texas, U.S. | occupation = Former educator<br /> Businesswoman | spouse = (1) Nelson Louis Gonyaw (married 1976-1995, divorced)<br /> (2) William Bryan Farney (married 1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peoplefinders.com/marriage-records/marsha+hatley|title=Marriage records for Marsha L. Hatley|publisher=peoplefinders.com|accessdate=February 27, 2014}}</ref> | children = {{ubl | Ashley Michelle Gonyaw Bules | Bryan Paul Gonyaw | Drew Farney }} | parents = Hurshell Hartford Hatley<br /> Shirley June Abney Hatley | alma_mater = Texas A&M University–Commerce<br /> University of Texas at Austin }} '''Marsha Lane Hatley Farney''' (born December 15, 1958)<ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/124733/marsha-farney#.Uw5VjcuPIfg|title=Marsha Farney's Biography|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=February 27, 2014}}</ref> is an American businesswoman and former educator from Georgetown, Texas. From 2013 to 2017, she was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 20, based in Burnet and Milam counties and a portion of northern Williamson County, a suburb of Austin in the central portion of the state.<ref name=mfarney>{{cite web|url=https://house.texas.gov/members/member-page/?district=20|title=Texas House Member: Rep. Farney, Marsha (District 20)|publisher=house.texas.gov|accessdate=February 27, 2014}}</ref>
In her bid for a third term, Farney was unseated in the Republican primary election held on March 1, 2016, by Terry Wilson, who polled 18,754 votes (54.3 percent) to her 15,809 (45.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/mar01_273_state.htm?x=0&y=10420&id=95 |title=Republican primary returns |date=March 2, 2016 |publisher=Texas Secretary of State |accessdate=March 2, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306080406/https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/mar01_273_state.htm?x=0&y=10420&id=95 |archivedate=March 6, 2016 }}</ref>
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{{S-start}} {{s-par|us-tx-hs}} {{succession box | before=Charles Schwertner | title=Member of the<br>Texas House of Representatives<br>from the 20th district|years=2013–2017 | after=Terry Wilson }} {{s-end}} {{S-start}} {{succession box | before=Cynthia A. Dunbar | title=Member of the Texas Board of Education for District 10 | years=2011–2013 | after=Tom Maynard}} {{s-end}}
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