The county’s top elected official will be discharged from a mental health facility this weekend and plans to return to work on Oct. 2 after two weeks of outpatient therapy.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Thursday announced she will return to work on Oct. 2, extending her temporary leave of absence while receiving treatment for clinical depression.and checked into an out-of-state facility to undergo treatment. She was scheduled to return to work in early September.from Hidalgo outlined that she will begin receiving outpatient treatment once she is discharged from the mental health facility on Saturday.
Hidalgo serves as Harris County’s top elected leader, guiding policy for the nation’s third-largest county.has been presiding over the county’s four-member Commissioners Court while Hidalgo has been undergoing treatment. Her chief of staff has been handling her office’s day-to-day operations during her absence.
Kathleen Thompson, executive director at Progress Texas, a liberal advocacy group, voiced her group’s support for Hidalgo. Hidalgo was elected as county judge in 2018 after she unexpectedly ousted Ed Emmett, a Republican who had enjoyed bipartisan support. Since then, Hidalgo has built a national profile as she led the county’s efforts to combat the rising number of COVID-19 cases during the early days of the pandemic and became one of the state’s most prominent Democrats — as well as a major target for Texas Republicans.
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