press release notes. She was an intelligence officer in the Air Force and was deployed to Iraq during the war there, serving under “don’t ask, don’t tell.” After leaving the Air Force, she worked for the federal government as an adviser on intelligence and trade, with agencies including the Defense Intelligence Agency and Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative. She left government service six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, saying his people “were interested in neither the public nor the service,” The Dallas Morning News reports.She was the Democratic nominee for the U.S.
House of Representatives from Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, which stretches from El Paso to San Antonio, in 2018 and 2020.