The DSC Bull Elephant Award will be presented to life-long hunter and shooter, U.S. Representative Jake Ellzey at the 2024 DSC Annual Convention. The Bull Elephant Award is given to legislators at the national level who have continually supported legislation and efforts that coincide with DSC’s mission.
U.S. Rep. Ellzey is a native of Perryton, Texas where he was raised on his family’s LZ ranch. He proudly representing the 6th Congressional District of Texas (encompassing all of Ellis, Navarro, Anderson, Hill, Cherokee, and parts of Tarrant, Dallas, Freestone and Johson counties) and is currently serving his second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee and is a member of the Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment, which controls the federal purse strings over hunting, conservation, and agencies like the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Rep. Ellzey has been a strong and unapologetic defender of hunting and conservation and has protected our hunting heritage by conducting rigorous oversight of federal government actions based on emotion and the demands of radical special interests rather than biological necessity and the North American Model of Conservation. His actions have reversed or halted several illogical federal rules that would’ve harmed the conservation of both domestic and international species.
Prior to serving in Congress, Jake served his country for 20 years in the Navy as a helicopter pilot and fighter pilot in F-14s and F/A-18s. He graduated from the Naval Academy where he was a member of the Trap and Skeet Team and he was deployed nine times, with five combat tours including a ground tour in support of SEAL Team 5 in Iraq. He also served as the Air Boss on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier. After retiring as a Commander in the Navy, Ellzey was a military contractor, small business owner, commercial airline pilot, a Commissioner on the Texas Veterans Commissions, and served as a Texas State Representative of the 10th District of Texas.
Jake and his wife Shelby have raised their two children in Ellis County for the past decade. The entire family enjoys hunting and shooting together.
