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Democratic Party officials often hail Ms. Valdez, a spirited populist, at a recent party fund-raiser. But among some activists on the left, particularly those opposed to the immigration policies of President Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, there is anger over several high-profile incidents in which they deemed Ms. Valdez hostile to some progressive reforms to immigration and criminal justice policy. During her tenure as Dallas sheriff, Ms.

Guadalupe Valdez born October 11, is an American law enforcement official who served as Sheriff of Dallas County , Texas , from to , and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas in the gubernatorial election , which she lost to Greg Abbott. Valdez was born and raised in San Antonio , as the youngest of eight children of Mexican-American migrant farm worker parents. Prior to entering law enforcement, Lupe Valdez was an officer in the United States Army Reserve , where she attained the rank of captain. Her law enforcement career began as a jailer, first in a county jail and then in a federal prison. She then moved on to investigative roles as an agent of the General Services Administration , the U. Department of Agriculture and, finally, the U.

Washington CNN Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez won her runoff and became the Democratic nominee for Texas governor Tuesday night, making her the first openly lesbian and Latina nominee to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the state. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.

As of the elections, the legislatures of 46 states have had at least one openly LGBT member; the first out person to serve in each of those states is listed here. The first openly gay judge in the United States was Stephen M. In , Thomas R. Chiola became the first openly gay judge in Illinois and the first openly gay elected official in Illinois when voters elected him to the Circuit Court of Cook County. Deborah A.