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American politician (born 1966)

Julie Johnson


Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 32nd district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2025
Preceded by	Colin Allred
Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 115th district
In office January 9, 2019 – January 3, 2025
Preceded by	Matt Rinaldi
Succeeded by	Cassandra Hernandez

Personal details
Born	Julie Elizabeth Johnson (1966-05-02) May 2, 1966 (age 58) Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Susan Moster (m. 2014)
Children	2
Education	University of Texas, Austin (BA) University of Houston (JD)
Website	House website

Julie Elizabeth Johnson (born May 2, 1966) is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for Texas's 32nd congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 115.

Education

Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center.

Career

Johnson defeated incumbent Republican Matt Rinaldi in the 2018 Texas House of Representatives elections. She is one of Dallas County's first two openly gay elected officials, and the first member of the Texas House with a spouse of the same gender.

In 2021, Johnson and the Texas House Democratic Caucus left the state, traveling to Washington D.C. in order to delay voting on any new bills in a special July session. Texas House Republicans voted to arrest the elected members to compel their attendance, though they did not have the jurisdiction to do so.

In June 2023, Johnson announced that she would run for the United States House of Representatives in Texas's 32nd congressional district in the 2024 elections, as incumbent Colin Allred was running for the U.S. Senate. She defeated Brian Williams in the Democratic Party primary election and won the November general election.

Personal life

Johnson came out as a lesbian in 1991. She and her wife, Susan Moster, married in San Francisco in 2014.

Electoral history

2024 Texas's 32nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Julie Johnson	138,545	61.9
	Republican	Darrell Day	85,170	38.1
Total votes			223,715	100.0

References

"Rep. Julie Johnson - D Texas, 32nd- Biography". LegiStorm. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
"Rep. Julie Johnson - D Texas, 32nd, In Office - Biography | LegiStorm". www.legistorm.com.
"Congressmember Elect Julie Johnson - Texas State Directory Online". www.txdirectory.com.
"Julie Johnson, candidate for United States Representative". Dallas News.
"Julie Johnson Heads To Austin As One Of Dallas County's First Two Openly Gay Legislators". KERA-TV. January 4, 2019. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
^ Barragán, James (January 2, 2019). "Openly gay Dallas County lawmaker Julie Johnson is making history in the Texas House, and so is her wife". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
"Inside the secret plan for the Texas Democratic exodus: A phone tree, a scramble to pack and a politically perilous trip". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
Svitek, Patrick; Pollock, Cassandra (July 13, 2021). "Texas House Republicans vote to track down absent Democrats and arrest them if necessary". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
Svitek, Patrick (June 20, 2023). "State Rep. Julie Johnson announces she is running for U.S. Rep. Colin Allred's seat". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
"Democrat Julie Johnson wins primary race to replace U.S. Rep. Colin Allred". Dallas News. March 6, 2024.
Migdon, Brooke (November 5, 2024). "Julie Johnson becomes first openly LGBTQ person to serve Texas in Congress". The Hill. Retrieved November 12, 2024.
"Julie Johnson Becomes First LGBTQ+ Person Elected to Congress in the South: 'I'm Going to Be a Force' (Exclusive)". People.com.

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byColin Allred	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 32nd congressional district 2025–present	Incumbent
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded byBrian Jack	United States representatives by seniority 402nd	Succeeded byMike Kennedy

v t e Texas's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators	▌John Cornyn (R) ▌Ted Cruz (R)
Representatives (ordered by district)	▌Nathaniel Moran (R) ▌Dan Crenshaw (R) ▌Keith Self (R) ▌Pat Fallon (R) ▌Lance Gooden (R) ▌Jake Ellzey (R) ▌Lizzie Fletcher (D) ▌Morgan Luttrell (R) ▌Al Green (D) ▌Michael McCaul (R) ▌August Pfluger (R) ▌Craig Goldman (R) ▌Ronny Jackson (R) ▌Randy Weber (R) ▌Monica De La Cruz (R) ▌Veronica Escobar (D) ▌Pete Sessions (R) ▌Sylvester Turner (D) ▌Jodey Arrington (R) ▌Joaquin Castro (D) ▌Chip Roy (R) ▌Troy Nehls (R) ▌Tony Gonzales (R) ▌Beth Van Duyne (R) ▌Roger Williams (R) ▌Brandon Gill (R) ▌Michael Cloud (R) ▌Henry Cuellar (D) ▌Sylvia Garcia (D) ▌Jasmine Crockett (D) ▌John Carter (R) ▌Julie Johnson (D) ▌Marc Veasey (D) ▌Vicente Gonzalez (D) ▌Greg Casar (D) ▌Brian Babin (R) ▌Lloyd Doggett (D) ▌Wesley Hunt (R)

Texas's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

▌John Cornyn (R)
▌Ted Cruz (R)

Representatives
(ordered by district)

▌Nathaniel Moran (R)
▌Dan Crenshaw (R)
▌Keith Self (R)
▌Pat Fallon (R)
▌Lance Gooden (R)
▌Jake Ellzey (R)
▌Lizzie Fletcher (D)
▌Morgan Luttrell (R)
▌Al Green (D)
▌Michael McCaul (R)
▌August Pfluger (R)
▌Craig Goldman (R)
▌Ronny Jackson (R)
▌Randy Weber (R)
▌Monica De La Cruz (R)
▌Veronica Escobar (D)
▌Pete Sessions (R)
▌Sylvester Turner (D)
▌Jodey Arrington (R)
▌Joaquin Castro (D)
▌Chip Roy (R)
▌Troy Nehls (R)
▌Tony Gonzales (R)
▌Beth Van Duyne (R)
▌Roger Williams (R)
▌Brandon Gill (R)
▌Michael Cloud (R)
▌Henry Cuellar (D)
▌Sylvia Garcia (D)
▌Jasmine Crockett (D)
▌John Carter (R)
▌Julie Johnson (D)
▌Marc Veasey (D)
▌Vicente Gonzalez (D)
▌Greg Casar (D)
▌Brian Babin (R)
▌Lloyd Doggett (D)
▌Wesley Hunt (R)

Current members of the United States House of Representatives

Speaker: Mike Johnson

Majority

v t e Republican Party conference
Speaker: Mike Johnson ‧ Majority Leader: Steve Scalise ‧ Majority Whip: Tom Emmer
Other members: Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Barr Barrett Baumgartner Bean Begich Bentz Bergman Bice A. Biggs S. Biggs Bilirakis Boebert Bost Brecheen Bresnahan Buchanan Burchett Burlison Calvert Cammack Carey B. Carter J. Carter Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Díaz-Balart Donalds Downing Dunn Edwards Ellzey Estes G. Evans Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Fong Foxx Franklin Fry Fulcher Garbarino Gill Giménez C. Goldman Gonzales Gooden Gosar Graves Green Greene Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh Haridopolos Harrigan A. Harris M. Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Hurd Issa Jack R. Jackson James D. Johnson Jordan D. Joyce J. Joyce Kean M. Kelly T. Kelly M. Kennedy Kiggans Kiley Kim Knott Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Langworthy Latta Lawler Lee Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Mace Mackenzie Malliotakis Maloy Mann Massie Mast McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McDowell McGuire Messmer Meuser C. Miller Mary Miller Max Miller Miller-Meeks Mills Moolenaar Ba. Moore Bl. Moore R. Moore T. Moore Moran Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn Obernolte Ogles Onder Owens Palmer Perry Pfluger Reschenthaler H. Rogers M. Rogers Rose Rouzer Roy Rulli Rutherford Salazar Schmidt Schweikert A. Scott Self Sessions Shreve Simpson A. Smith C. Smith J. Smith Smucker Spartz Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Strong Stutzman Taylor Tenney Thompson Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber Webster Westerman Wied R. Williams Wilson Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
Delegates: King-Hinds Moylan Radewagen

Minority

v t e Democratic Party caucus
Minority Leader: Hakeem Jeffries ‧ Minority Whip: Katherine Clark
Other members: Adams Aguilar Amo Ansari Auchincloss Balint Barragán Beatty Bell Bera Beyer Bishop Bonamici Boyle Brown Brownley Budzinski Bynum Carbajal Carson T. Carter Casar Case Casten Castor Castro Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cisneros Clarke Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conaway Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids D.K. Davis Don Davis Dean DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dexter Dingell Doggett Elfreth Escobar Espaillat Evans Fields Figures Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel Friedman Frost Garamendi C. García R. Garcia S. Garcia Gillen Golden D. Goldman Gomez Gonzalez Goodlander Gottheimer Gray Green Grijalva Harder Hayes Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle Huffman Ivey J. Jackson Jacobs Jayapal H. Johnson J. Johnson Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating R. Kelly T. Kennedy Khanna Krishnamoorthi Landsman Larsen Larson Latimer Sum. Lee Sus. Lee Leger Fernandez Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Lynch Magaziner Mannion Matsui McBath McBride McClain Delaney McClellan McCollum McDonald Rivet McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Min Moore Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Nadler Neal Neguse Norcross Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Riley Rivas Ross Ruiz Ryan Salinas Sánchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schneider Scholten Schrier B. Scott D. Scott Sewell Sherman Sherrill Simon Adam Smith Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stevens Strickland Subramanyam Suozzi Swalwell Sykes Takano Thanedar B. Thompson M. Thompson Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko N. Torres R. Torres Trahan Tran Turner Underwood Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velázquez Vindman Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Whitesides N. Williams F. Wilson
Delegates: Holmes Norton Hernández Rivera Plaskett

Texas's delegation(s) to the 119th–present United States Congress (ordered by seniority)

119th

Senate: ▌J. Cornyn (R) · ▌R. Cruz (R)

House:

▌L. Doggett (D)
▌P. Sessions (R)
▌J. Carter (R)
▌E. Cuellar (D)
▌A. Green (D)
▌M. McCaul (R)
▌J. Castro (D)
▌M. Veasey (D)
▌R. Weber (R)
▌J. Williams (R)
▌B. Babin (R)
▌J. Arrington (R)
▌V. Gonzalez (D)
▌M. Cloud (R)
▌D. Crenshaw (R)
▌V. Escobar (D)
▌S. Garcia (D)
▌L. Gooden (R)
▌E. Fletcher (D)
▌C. Roy (R)
▌P. Fallon (R)
▌E. Gonzales (R)
▌R. Jackson (R)
▌T. Nehls (R)
▌A. Pfluger (R)
▌B. Van Duyne (R)
▌J. Ellzey (R)
▌G. Casar (D)
▌J. Crockett (D)
▌M. De La Cruz (R)
▌W. Hunt (R)
▌M. Luttrell (R)
▌N. Moran (R)
▌K. Self (R)
▌B. Gill (R)
▌C. Goldman (R)
▌J. Johnson (D)
▌S. Turner (D)

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