'We can get it done': Humble ISD board president issues election challenge to Hidalgo

Humble Independent School District Board President Martina Lemond Dixon on Sept. 22 announced that she will run as a Republican against Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo in next year’s election.

When declaring her candidacy for chief executive of Texas’s largest and the U.S.’s third-largest county, Dixon, a former Houston-area educator, criticized Hidalgo, the first female and the first Latina to be elected to the post, for “playing politics” by advancing what she says is an “out-of-touch” progressive agenda.

"Whether it is crime, flood recovery, roads or taxes, we can get it done and put our county back on track if we put politics aside and work together," the Houston Chronicle reported Dixon as saying.

Hidalgo, a Democrat, made headlines in the fall of 2018 when she fielded a successful campaign against Republican incumbent Ed Emmett, who is now a lecturer at Rice University.

Educated at Auburn and LSU, Dixon described herself on her LinkedIn profile as an "experienced board member and educator with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry."

She has taught journalism in Houston and Galena Park school districts.

Dixon was elected to the Humble ISD school board in May 2017, according to the district’s website.

As the office-holder for Position 5, she has served as parliamentarian, secretary and vice president before assuming the presidency last June.

Dixon, who also serves as the assistant secretary of the Harris Council Appraisal District Board, has sat on the Lake Houston Family YMCA Board, the Humble ISD Education Foundation Board, and on the Humble ISD PTA Council’s Executive Board.

A married mother of four, Dixon and her family have resided within Humble ISD's boundaries for more than 20 years.