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Lina Maria Hidalgo (born February 19, 1991) is an American politician in the state of Texas. She is the county judge of Harris County , the third-most populous county in the United States. [ 1 ] Hidalgo is the first woman and the first Latina to be elected to this office.
A Harris County grand jury indicted three senior advisors to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo in April 2022 on two public corruption felonies each. The charges, each first-degree felonies, involve allegedly steering an $11 million COVID vaccine outreach campaign to a one-person consulting firm owned by a Democratic strategist.
After being tested by massive chemical fires and a rash of destructive floods, Lina Hidalgo, the 29-year-old top government executive of Harris County, Texas, is now facing a killer virus and the ...
Similarly, Hidalgo cut him off when he tried to allow Representative Jolanda Jones to speak. The two then released separate news releases and held separate press conferences. [43] In June 2024, Whitmire came under scrutiny following a Facebook comment he made under a post by Hidalgo showing her and her fiancé at their bridal shower. Whitmire ...
Lina Hidalgo, chief executive of the third-largest U.S. county and the largest one in Texas, has checked in to a medical facility outside the state to be treated for clinical depression, she said ...
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Lina Hidalgo: [172] [173] First female (and Hispanic woman of Colombian descent) elected as the Harris County Judge (2018) Shannon Baldwin: [174] First openly LGBT African American female judge in Harris County, Texas (2018) Fran Watson: [175] First African American (female) to serve as a probate judge in Harris County, Texas (2024)
Harris County as a whole is more of a swing area, as the longtime GOP majority in Commissioner's Court ended in 2018. Republican challenger Alexandra del Moral Mealer nearly defeated incumbent Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo in November 2022, losing by 1 percentage point as GOP Commissioner Jack Cagle lost re-election to Democrat Lesley ...