Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner and the late U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee — colleagues, friends and proud Houstonians — often spoke of a shared goal to serve the city they loved.

Born February 22, 1955, in East Chicago, IN, to Nemm and Jessie Mae Jackson. Robert Lee Jackson made his transition on December 5, 2024. He was preceded in death by his parents Nemm and Jessie Mae ...

Jackson Lee was a key political figure in Houston for decades and one of the longest-serving members in Congress where she was first elected in 1994. She died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Former Ward 2 Councilwoman Angelique Lee pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court on a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery. The indictment said Lee accepted cash and luxury items in exchange for a ...

Washington — The daughter of former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month, announced late Monday that she intends to run to fill the Houston-area seat for the remainder of her mother's term. "I ...

Late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter, Erica Lee Carter, announced Monday she is running in the special election for the U.S. House seat formerly held by her mother to finish the remainder of the ...

Former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner will replace the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as the Democratic nominee on the ballot after the party’s district precinct chairs selected him on Tuesday ...

Amanda Edwards, a former City Council member who mounted a spirited, but unsuccessful challenge to Jackson Lee's grip on the 18th Congressional District, told the Chronicle that she sees a parallel ...

The children of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) endorsed former Houston, Texas, Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) for her House seat on Monday. The late congresswoman’s children, Jason Lee and ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was short in stature, but friends and colleagues of the longtime congresswoman remember her as someone who was a giant in her hometown of Houston, Texas, and in the nation’s ...

Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday eulogized longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee as a “force of nature” as memorials for the longtime Democratic lawmaker drew to a close. Harris took time away ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The public is invited to Houston City Hall on Monday to pay their respects to late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Jackson Lee died on July 19, just over a month after ...