Gina Hinojosa

Meet Gina

Gina Hinojosa is a native Texan, born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley. A proud product of Brownsville public schools, Gina graduated from the University of Texas and received her law degree from George Washington University.

Gina’s Story

Gina began her career as an advocate for families and workers as a civil rights and union lawyer. She represented hard working Texans fighting to make sure they were treated fairly, got the wages and benefits they earned, and helping them support their families.

Gina has a long history of holding corrupt politicians accountable. In 2005, she was part of the legal team that sued House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on money laundering charges, and has been a constant corruption watchdog in the Legislature.

Gina never planned on running for office. But when her son’s elementary school was threatened for closure by state budget cuts, Gina rallied other parents, ran for Austin ISD School Board—and won. She kept her son’s school open, along with every other public school in the district. Her fellow trustees appointed her Board President in 2015.

But neighborhood schools kept closing across the state because Republican leaders kept diverting Texas tax dollars away from schools, so Gina ran for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives—and won. In 2019, she fought for and helped win an investment of more than $11 billion in Texas public schools. Inspired by her experience with her own kids, she led on legislation that would reduce standardized testing and provide pay raises for every Texas teacher.

A fierce champion of working Texans, Gina has been fighting back against billionaires and corporate interests in the legislature for a decade, pushing the state to invest in neighborhood schools, expand health care access, and lower costs for Texans.

Gina knows healthcare is vitally important to every Texan, which is why she was the House sponsor of a law that ensured almost $1 billion dollars in federal funds to pay for indigent health care in Travis County.

In addition to this work, Gina passed the most significant corporate reform legislation in a decade, creating a new kind of corporation in Texas, a public benefit corporation—using corporate power to achieve public good. She also passed legislation on public safety and benefits for our servicemembers.

Growing up in the Valley, Gina learned an important early lesson from her grandmother: ”No te dejes.” Fight back.

Now, Gina is taking the fight directly to Greg Abbott, who for over a decade has helped the corrupt elite get rich while working Texans struggle to get by. Texans deserve a leader who puts people first, defends our values, and leads with courage—not one who is loyal to his campaign donors.