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Since 1959, there have been 34 states which have appointed or elected women as attorneys-general. Puerto Rico has had a record four women hold office as attorney general, the most of any U.S. state or territory. Anne X. Alpern of Pennsylvania is the first woman to hold office as the attorney-general of a state. [1]
Rochelle Mercedes Garza (born 1984/1985) [1] is an American attorney from Brownsville, Texas currently serving as one of the five Commissioners on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is a civil rights attorney who practices family law , criminal defense , Immigration law , constitutional law and is the president of the ...
Women have been most present in the Texas executive branch as part of the State Board of Education.The first woman ever elected to statewide office in Texas was elected as Superintendent of Public Instruction (this position no longer exists; the duties of the former Superintendent of Public Instruction are now carried out by the appointed Commissioner of Education). [3]
We should see more women running for office and winning. Texas women are active politically. They vote. In the 2020 presidential election, 6.3 million Texas women voted, compared with 5.6 million men.
Texas Democratic and Republican voters will pick their nominees for president, a U.S. Senate seat, 15 state Senate offices, all 150 state House seats, and an array of federal, state and local ...
Receiving 17,280 of the 26,607 ballots cast in the race, Ellis will move on to face Republican John Messinger, with the Office of the State Prosecuting Attorney, during the November general election.
The 2026 Texas Attorney General election is scheduled to take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the Attorney General of Texas. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton is eligible to run for re-election to a fourth term in office. He has expressed interest in running for U.S. Senate against incumbent John Cornyn. [1]
A Democrat trying to take one of the GOP’s most coveted Texas districts is at the center of an election-year probe by state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in what the nation’s oldest Latino ...