Biography:
— Representative from Texas.
— Born in San Diego, Duval County, Tex., September 6, 1950.
— Graduated from Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco High School, Ben Bolt, Tex.
— B.S., Texas Women's University, Denton, Tex., 1972.
— J.D., Texas Southern University, Houston, Tex., 1978.
— Lawyer.
— Social worker.
— Director and presiding judge, Houston, Tex., municipal court system, 1983-1998.
— Houston, Tex., Houston city controller, 1998-2003.
— Member of the Harris County, Tex., commissioners court, 2003-2010.
— Member of the Texas state senate, 2013-2018.
— Unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992.
— Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2019-present).
— One of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 2020 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.