Sylvia Garcia was one of the House managers who prosecuted Donald Trump's first impeachment trial in the Senate — the first Hispanic person ever to hold that role.
Garcia grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers in Palito Blanco, Texas, and went on to become a Houston Municipal Court judge, a Harris County Commissioner, and a Texas state senator before winning her Houston-based congressional seat in 2018. She's now seeking re-election in a newly redrawn TX-29, where Republican mapmakers cut the district's Hispanic voting population nearly in half in an attempt to weaken her support.
Garcia’s take on Texas values
Garcia introduced a bill to stop immigration agents from being used to intimidate voters at the polls and has criticized Republican-drawn maps and the SAVE Act's stricter voter ID document rules. [Rep. Sylvia Garcia press release; FAIRUS.org]