Sheila Jackson Lee

Sheila Jackson Lee ( born January 12, 1950 in New York City ) is an American politician. Since 1995, it represents the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Sheila Jackson Lee attended Jamaica High School in New York and then studied until 1972 at Yale University. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and its admission as a lawyer, she started in 1975 to work in this profession. In the period from 1977 to 1979, she was among the advisers of the Select Committee on Assassinations, a committee of Congress to study the spectacular political assassinations in the 1960s, which included the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. From 1987 to 1990 she was a judge in Houston. At the same time she began a career in politics as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1990 and 1994 she served on the City Council of Houston.

In the congressional elections of 1994, Sheila Jackson Lee in the 18th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Craig Anthony Washington on 3 January 1995. After the previous eight elections, they can exercise their mandate in Congress today. There she is a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security and in five sub-committees. In her time as a Congressman, the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. She is married to the law professor Elwyn C. Lee, who is at the University of Houston, including Vice President for Public Relations.