“I try to uphold oaths, and I would try to do that no matter who was in the White House.”
N 1990, EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, THEN A TEXAS STATE Senator, told the that “being a woman and being Black is perhaps a double handicap.” Despite the challenges of working in a mostly white Legislature and Congress, the Dallas Democrat has broken many barriers in her nearly half century in government. When she won a Texas state House seat in 1972, now-Congresswoman Johnson became the first Black woman elected to the Legislature from Dallas. A registered nurse who began her career at the veterans’ hospital in Dallas, she was the first registered nurse to hold office in the Texas
