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Jasmine Crockett
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 30th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2023
Preceded byEddie Bernice Johnson
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 100th district
In office
January 12, 2021 – January 3, 2023
Preceded byLorraine Birabil
Succeeded byVenton Jones
Personal details
Born
Jasmine Felicia Crockett

(1981-03-29) March 29, 1981 (age 44)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationRhodes College (BA)
University of Houston (JD)
SignatureCampaign website
Jasmine Crockett's voice
On May 11, 2023, Crockett spoke about the mall shooting in Allen, Texas.

Jasmine Felicia Crockett is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from Texas's 30th congressional district since January 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party, in a district covering most of south Dallas County, central Dallas, Dallas Love Field airport, and a small portion of Tarrant County.

In the 118th Congress, Crockett served as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly-elected Democratic members.[1] Crockett was named as co-chair of the 2024 Harris-Walz campaign.[2] Crockett is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.[3]

Crockett previously represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives. Prior to that, she was a public defender for Bowie County, Texas, and had previously practiced law in a private firm.

Early life and career

Crockett was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Pastor Joseph and Gwen Crockett.[4] She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain, an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis.[5]

Attending Rhodes College, she was advised by a professor that she had too much personality to settle for her plan to become a certified public accountant. The school's handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer, when she got racist hate mail and her Black friends' cars were keyed.[6] She explained, "My school didn't know what to do, and they brought in The Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant 'shero'. ... While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there. I saw how much help a lawyer could be to somebody at a very confusing time."[7] She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration.[8]

She attended the University of Houston Law Center, graduating in 2006 with a Juris Doctor. She was a member of the National Bar Association and of the Dallas Black Criminal Bar Association.[8]

She completed law school and soon passed the bar examination in 2006. She became a public defender for Bowie County and later formed a law firm, which handled car accident lawsuits and took pro bono cases for Black Lives Matter activists.[7]

Crockett is a Baptist[9][10] and a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.[11]

Texas House of Representatives

In 2019, after Eric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to become mayor of Dallas, a special election was held on November 5 with a runoff on January 28, 2020, for the remainder of his term, which Lorraine Birabil won.[12] Crockett challenged Birabil in the 2020 Democratic primary. She narrowly defeated Birabil in a primary runoff, advancing to the November 2020 general election, which she won unopposed. She assumed office in January 2021.[13][14]

U.S. House of Representatives

Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi, and Crockett posed in 2021.

Elections

2022

See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas § District 30

On November 20, 2021, incumbent U.S. representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas's 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022.[15] Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett.[16][17] Crockett also received extensive financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC giving $1 million in support of her campaign.[18] In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to U.S. representative Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election,[19] which Crockett won.[20] She then won the general election on November 8.[21] Crockett was chosen to be the 118th Congress's freshman class representative.[1]

Tenure

Crockett supports military aid to Ukraine during its war with Russia.

Crockett was among the 46 Democrats who voted against the final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[22] She voted to provide Israel with support following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.[23][24]

Crockett voted in favor of three military aid package supplementals for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, respectively, in April 2024, along with most of her fellow Democrats.[25][26][27]

In a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Joe Biden, Crockett accused fellow congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans of hypocrisy. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry, and those who brought-forth charges against Biden, were ignoring documented evidence of President Donald Trump's own criminal offenses; she displayed photos from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, depicting Trump storing classified documents inside a bathroom (and in other locations lacking security), to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me."[28][29][30]

Crockett addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention and referenced the incident. When comparing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Trump, the Republican nominee, she said of the latter, "He keeps national secrets next to his thinking chair—y'all know what I said the other time."[31] She won a second term to House of Representatives in 2024.[32]

In March 2025, Crockett called Governor Greg Abbott, who is handicapped and ambulates in a wheelchair, "Governor Hot Wheels" and a "Hot Ass Mess" at a speech onstage during Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner. Crockett denied that the comment had to do with Abbott's condition, instead saying that it referenced the "planes, trains, and automobiles" he used to transfer migrants to Democratic communities. In response, Abbott stated: "It's another day and another disaster by the Democrats."[33] Representative Randy Weber filed a censure resolution against Crockett.[34]

Caucus memberships

Committee assignments

Current
Past

Rhetorical style

Crockett has used alliteration in public speaking. In an Oversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2024, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to a barb by Crockett: "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading." Committee chairman James Comer ruled that this remark did not violate House protocol. To clarify the limits on personal comments, Crockett asked "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?"[38][39] Comer responded with "... a what, now?" On August 19, 2024, the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Crockett spoke about Republican nominee Donald Trump, and asked, "will a vindictive vile villain violate voters' vision?"[40]

Electoral history

2020 Texas's 100th state house district Democratic primary[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Lorraine Birabil (incumbent) 4,566 29.3
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 4,030 25.9
Democratic Sandra Crenshaw 2,944 18.9
Democratic Daniel Davis Clayton 1,665 10.9
Democratic James Armstrong III 1,315 8.5
Democratic Paul Stafford 1,046 6.7
Total votes 15,566 100.0
2020 Texas's 100th state house district Democratic primary runoff[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 5,171 50.4
Democratic Lorraine Birabil (incumbent) 5,081 49.6
Total votes 10,252 100.0
2020 Texas's 100th state house district election[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 45,550 100.0
Total votes 45,550 100.0
2022 Texas's 30th congressional district Democratic primary[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 26,798 48.5
Democratic Jane Hope Hamilton 9,436 17.1
Democratic Keisha Williams-Lankford 4,323 7.8
Democratic Barbara Mallory Caraway 4,277 7.7
Democratic Abel Mulugheta 3,284 5.9
Democratic Roy Williams 2,746 5.0
Democratic Vonciel Hill 1,886 3.4
Democratic Jessica Mason 1,858 3.4
Democratic Arthur Dixon 677 1.2
Total votes 55,285 100.0
2022 Texas's 30th congressional district Democratic primary runoff[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 17,462 60.6
Democratic Jane Hope Hamilton 11,369 39.4
Total votes 28,831 100.0
2022 Texas's 30th congressional district election[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 134,876 74.72
Republican James Rodgers 39,209 21.72
Independent Zachariah Manning 3,820 2.12
Libertarian Phil Gray 1,870 1.04
Write-in Debbie Walker 738 0.41
Total votes 180,513 100.0
2024 Texas's 30th congressional district Democratic primary[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 43,059 91.5
Democratic Jarred Davis 3,982 8.5
Total votes 47,041 100.0
2024 Texas's 30th congressional district election[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jasmine Crockett 197,650 84.9
Libertarian Jrmar Jefferson 35,175 15.1
Total votes 232,825 100.0

See also

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from the 100th district
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