Lina Hidalgo is first Latina and first woman elected to lead Texas' most populous county
AUSTIN, Texas — Lina Hidalgo is one of the other big stories — not the Ted Cruz-Beto O’Rourke race — to come out of Texas when the dust settled.
Hidalgo became the first Latina and the first woman elected as county judge of Harris County, the county that includes Houston. In Texas, the elected official who is the chief executive for county government is called the county judge.
“I feel great. I feel ready,” Hidalgo told NBC News, as she spoke of her new job overseeing a $5 billion budget for the third most populous county in the country and the most populous in Texas. Harris County has 4.7 million residents.
Harris County also is one of the most diverse, with a population that is about 43 percent Latino, 30 percent white and non-Latino, about 20 percent black and 7.3 percent Asian. The county had 19 black women running for judicial positions and they all won their races.
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