Eddie Johnson, a Democrat who has served 15 terms in Congress, will not be seeking re-election and will retire from Congress.
According to her Congressional website, Johnson is the first nurse to be elected to Congress. She was the first African-American woman to serve as chief psychiatric nurse at the Veterans Affairs Hospital.
Johnson served in both the state House of Representatives and Senate before she was elected to Congress in 1993. She was credited with authoring and co-authoring more than 180 bills that were signed into law.
She is the highest-ranking Texan on the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee and the first African-American and woman to chair the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Almost every Texan has benefited from the work of Congresswoman Johnson. Colin Allred said that no one works harder for their own people than she does.
According to a press release, Johnson announced that two Dallas-based infrastructure projects were awarded grants by the Department of Transportation equivalent to $21 million.
