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AN EXEMPLARY LESBIAN LATINA: For four years, Lupe Valdez has served as Dallas' sheriff after campaigning on the plat-
form to increase security personnel and stop jail over-crowding. Next month's runoff will determine whom she'll face in the
November election.
Just being the first woman and the first Latina
and the first lesbian elected as sheriff of Dallas
County would probably be enough to make
Lupe Valdez a role model for many in the LGBT
community. But the life journey that led her to that
office more than secures Vaidez's role model status.
Valdez is one of eight children born to migrant
farm worker parents in San Antonio and she worked
in the field herself. Despite her father's objections,
she not only graduated from high school, she then
paid her own way through college, sometimes work-
ing two jobs while carrying a full class load to earn
her bachelor's degree in business administration.
She also joined the United States Army, rising to
the rank of captain before leaving the military.
Valdez started her career in law enforcement as
a jaiier in a county jail, then moved on to become a
jailer at a federal prison. She went on to serve as an
agent with the General Services Administration,
then the U.S. Department of Agriculture before tak-
ing a job with the U.S. Customs Service where she
served as a leader in the federal Counter Smuggling
Initiative.
When the Department of Homeland Security
was created In 2002, Valdez joined up as a senior
agent, a job she held until she retired in 2004 to
run for sheriff. Along the way, she also managed to
find time to earn her master's degree in criminology
and criminal justice from the University of Texas at
Arlington.
Valdez formally announced her plans to run for
re-election in December of 2007. In the Democratic
Party primary held March 3, the Incumbent sheriff
claimed about 51 percent of the vote against three
challengers, and is now waiting for the April 8
runoff between Republican candidates Lowell
Cannaday and former Sheriff Jim Bowles to find out
whom she will face in the November general elec-
tion.
— Tarnmye Nash
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Nash, Tammye. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, March 21, 2008, newspaper, March 21, 2008; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth239004/m1/76/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.