Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to attend the funeral service for late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee after the congresswoman died following a battle with cancer.
Vice President Kamala Harris is slated to attend the funeral service for her 'dear friend,' the late U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, in Houston later this week. The 'Celebration of Life' is scheduled for Thursday at Fallbrook Church, according to Jackson Lee's office. Other elected officials in the U.S. and abroad are also expected to attend the service, according to Fox 26. Jackson Lee died on July 19 at the age of 74 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
She also previously battled breast cancer, having been diagnosed in 2011, before announcing the following year she was cancer free. The congresswoman had represented Texas' 18th congressional district for 30 years. Prior to her time in Congress, Jackson Lee served as a judge before she was elected to an at-large Houston City Council seat in 1989. Last year, she ran an unsuccessful campaign for Houston mayor, losing by a wide margin to then-state Sen.
As a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, I had the opportunity to work closely with her on many issues and to observe her leadership firsthand. She was relentless — one of our nation's fiercest, smartest, and most strategic leaders in the way she thought about how to make progress happen,' Harris said in a July 20 statement. 'There was never a trite or trivial conversation with the Congresswoman. She was always fighting for the people of Houston and the people of America.
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