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Sheila Jackson Lee (née Jackson; January 12, 1950 – July 19, 2024) was an American lawyer and politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, from 1995 until her death in 2024. The district includes most of central Houston.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, has died at the age of 74 after a battle with cancer, her family announced on Friday. “Today, with incredible grief for our loss yet deep gratitude for the life ...
Members of Congress took to social media to remember Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who died Friday evening at the age of 74. Many of her colleagues highlighted Lee’s nearly three-decade ...
That was Sheila,” he said. Jackson Lee had just been elected to the Houston district once represented by Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman elected to Congress from a Southern state since ...
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has died aged 74 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.. The Houston area congresswoman was a fixture of Democratic Party politics for almost three decades ...
The seat became vacant when incumbent Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee died on July 19, 2024. [1] The special election will only fill the remainder of Jackson Lee's unexpired term, from November 2024 until January 2025.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was short in stature, but friends and colleagues of the longtime congresswoman remember her as someone who was a giant in her hometown of Houston, Texas, and in the nation ...
Jackson Lee led efforts to establish Juneteenth as a holiday in 2021. Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and ...