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Houston City Council. The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas . The Council has sixteen members: eleven from council districts and five elected at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, with the most recent election being held in 2023 and the next being held in 2027.
1981 or 1982 (age 42–43) [1] Houston, Texas, U.S. Political party. Democratic. Education. Emory University ( BA) Harvard University ( JD) Amanda Edwards (born 1981 or 1982) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Houston City Council. She was a candidate for the 2020 United States Senate election in Texas, in ...
The current mayor of Houston is John Whitmire. The city council lineup was based on a U.S. Justice Department mandate which took effect in 1979. Under the current city charter, when the population in the Houston city limits passed 2.2 million residents, the nine-member city council districts expanded to include two more city council districts.
B. Chris Bell (politician) Michael Berry (radio host) Jew Don Boney. Dwight Boykins. Helena Brown (politician) Peter Hoyt Brown.
Pollard is the principal owner of Pollard Legal Group, LLC, which is a civil litigation law firm. Additionally, he founded Suits for Success which is a 501 (c)3 organization that helps teenage boys develop life skills. He is member of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, and has 2 children. [ 1]
Sallie Alcorn is an American politician who has held political office as an at-large council member in the City of Houston, Texas since 2020. Alcorn collected 22.8% of the votes in the November 5, 2019 general election, [1] which triggered a runoff. She won her runoff election [2] on December 14, 2019, with 52.8% (90,235) of the vote.
She won 51.9% of the vote against her opponent Anthony Dolcefino and is the first Muslim to be elected to Houston City Council. [3] [2] She was sworn in on January 2, 2020 to represent At-Large Position 4 of Houston City Council succeeding Amanda Edwards, [4] [3] who ran for Senate. Plummer is affiliated with the Democratic Party. [5]
Dwight Anthony Boykins is a Democratic politician and former member of the Houston City Council in Texas, representing District D where he was born and raised. He was elected to the council in 2013 in the general election on November 5, 2013. [1] He was also a candidate for Mayor of Houston in the 2019 election.