Jasmine Felicia Crockett (born March 29, 1981) is an American lawyer and politician who is the U.S. representative from Texas’s 30th congressional district since 2023. Her district covers most of South Dallas County, central Dallas, Dallas Love Field Airport and parts of Tarrant County. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives.

In the 118th Congress, Crockett serves as the Democratic freshman class representative between the House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly elected Democratic members.^[1]

Crockett was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain, an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis, Missouri.^[2] She graduated from Rhodes College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. As an undergraduate, Crockett planned to become an anesthesiologist or certified public accountant before deciding to attend law school, which she stated was due to experiencing a hate crime while attending college.^[3] She later attended the University of Houston Law Center, graduating in 2006 with a Juris Doctor. Representative Crockett was a member of the National Bar Association, as well, with the Dallas Black Criminal Bar Association.^[4]

Representative Crockett completed law school and passed the bar in 2006. She then became a public defender for Bowie County. She formed a law firm. The firm was notable for taking pro bono cases of Black Lives Matter activists.^[3]

Crockett is a Baptist,^[5][6] and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.^[7]

In 2019, after Eric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to serve as mayor of Dallas, a special election was held on November 5 with a runoff on January 28, 2020, for the remainder of his term, which Lorraine Birabil won.^[8] Crockett challenged Birabil in the 2020 Democratic primary. She narrowly defeated Birabil in a primary runoff, advancing to the November 2020 general election, which she won unopposed. She assumed office in January 2021.^[9][10]

On November 20, 2021, incumbent U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas’s 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022.^[11] Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett.^[12][13] Crockett also received extensive financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried‘s Protect Our Future PAC giving $1 million in support of her campaign.^[14] In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election,^[15] which Crockett won.^[16] She then won the general election on November 8.^[17] Crockett was chosen to be the 118th Congress‘s freshman class representative.^[1]

Crockett was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.^[18]

She voted to provide Israel with support following 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.^[19][20]

Crockett voted in favor of three military aid package supplementals for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan respectively in April 2024, along with most Democrats.^[21][22][23]

In a 2023 impeachment hearing of President Biden, Crockett criticized fellow congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans for being hypocritical. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry, those who brought forth charges against President Biden, were ignoring documented evidence of President Trump’s own criminal criminal offenses; she held up photos from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, depicting Trump storing classified documents inside a bathroom and other locations lacking security, and remarked, “These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me.”^[24][25][26]

Crockett addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention and referenced the incident. When comparing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Republican nominee Donald Trump, she said of latter, “He keeps national secrets next to his thinking chair—y’all know what I said the other time”.^[27]

• Congressional Black Caucus
• Congressional Equality Caucus^[28]
• Congressional Progressive Caucus^[29]

• Committee on Agriculture
  • Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
  • Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
  • Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture
• Committee on Oversight and Accountability
  • Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce
• Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

• List of African-American United States representatives
• Women in the United States House of Representatives

• Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett official U.S. House website
• Jasmine Crockett for Congress campaign website
• Appearances on C-SPAN

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
• Profile at Vote Smart