Lupe Valdez
Wed, 09/12/2018 - 9:17pm
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Lupe Valdez is a 2018 Democratic candidate seeking election to the position of Governor of Texas. Valdez was born in San Antonio, the daughter of migrant farm workers and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and her Master’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Texas at Arlington. She was a captain in the U.S. Army, and also worked as a federal agent for U.S. Customs Department, Border Protection and Homeland Security for almost 30 years.Valdez was elected sheriff of Dallas County and is the nation’s first openly gay female Hispanic sheriff and managed the second largest county jail in Texas.