Lina Maria Hidalgo (born February 19, 1991) is an American politician in the state of Texas. She is the county judge of Harris County, the third-most populous county in the United States. [1] Hidalgo is the first woman and the first Latina to be elected to this office.

Apr 24, 2023 · She could be the most powerful Democrat you’ve never heard of: a young, recently reelected leader overseeing a multibillion-dollar county budget in the country’s second-most populous state. And...

Oct 2, 2020 · Lina Hidalgo graduated from Seven Lakes High School in Katy, Texas. She said another notable difference was the quality of the public school system.

Without any previous political experience, 28-year-old Lina Hidalgo was elected in November 2018 as Harris County Judge in Houston, leading the third largest county in the nation and the most populous county in Texas. Hidalgo beat incumbent Ed Emmett, a Republican who’s been on the job since 2007.

Nov 11, 2022 · Lina Hidalgo is a young politician and is currently 31 years of age. He has a net worth of USD 300,000 as of 2018. There is no such information about her boyfriend or husband, but his currently unmarried.

Apr 27, 2023 · Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo will grace the pages of Vogue magazine next month. The Democratic leader was photographed by the iconic Annie Leibovitz for a feature titled "Meet Judge Lina...

Feb 6, 2024 · As a rising young Democratic star and the top elected official of Harris County, the most populous in Texas, Lina Hidalgo surprised many people last summer when she announced that she had...

Oct 6, 2020 · At 5 years old, she and her family moved to Peru to escape the violence, when her dad secured a job in Lima. She attended private international schools where she learned English and began to form her idea of government as she watched giants in …

Oct 15, 2021 · The Harris County Judge tells PEOPLE about why her family left Colombia, the adversity she faces as a young woman in politics and being a role model to children who want to achieve like she has

Jun 3, 2020 · Many newly elected officials were surprisingly young and female. Nowhere was this more evident than in Houston, Texas, when 27-year-old Lina Hidalgo defeated longtime Republican Judge Ed Emmett for Harris County Judge. The margin was a paltry 13,000 votes, and many attributed it to the Beto effect.