Jasmine Felicia Crockett (born March 29, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Crockett graduated from Rhodes College with a Bachelor of Arts and from the University of Houston Law Center with a Juris Doctor. Afterward, she was a public defender in Bowie County, Texas, and later formed her own law firm. She was elected to the Texas House in 2020, succeeding Lorraine Birabil. In 2026, Crockett was a candidate in the U.S. Senate election in Texas, losing the Democratic primary to state representative James Talarico.
Crockett was born in St. Louis to Rev. Joseph Crockett and Gwen Crockett. She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain Academy. She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from Rhodes College. She attended Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University prior to graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 2006 with a Juris Doctor.
From 2007 to 2010, Jasmine Crockett was an attorney for the Bowie County Public Defender's Office. In 2010, Crockett ran in the Bowie County district attorney race and lost. She was later elected to chair Bowie County's Democratic Party. In 2010, Crockett started her own law firm, Crockett Law PLLC, which operated until 2022. Her law firm represented victims of alleged police brutality.
Texas House of Representatives (2021–2023)
In 2019, after Eric Johnson vacated his seat in the Texas House to become mayor of Dallas, a special election was held on November 5 with a runoff on January 28, 2020, for the remainder of his term. Lorraine Birabil won. 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.
In the summer of 2021, Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, including Crockett, organized a quorum-bust in an attempt to stop the passage of legislation they saw as restricting voting rights in the state. These representatives flew to Washington, D.C. to lobby the United States Senate to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act. Crockett supported maintaining the quorum break, however she returned to the state once quorum was reestablished and the legislation stalled in the Senate.
Three bills she co-authored became law. These included legislation that eliminated or had the effect of eliminating certain in-court fees for recently incarcerated persons and also criminalized financial abuse of the elderly.
U.S. House of Representatives (2023–present)
On November 20, 2021, incumbent representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas's 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022. Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett. Crockett received $2 million in financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC, and Web3 Forward giving $1 million each in support of her campaign. In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to U.S. representative Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election, which Crockett won. She then won the general election on November 8.
Early in her term, Crockett served as the representative for the 35 newly-elected Democratic members and acted as a liaison between them and the House Democratic leadership. Through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed by President Joe Biden, Crockett secured $510,000 in federal funding for infrastructure projects in Glenn Heights.
Crockett has sponsored and co-sponsored legislation aimed at legalizing fentanyl testing strips, and offering additional employment protections for military spouses. She also introduced legislation to improve access to rural housing assistance and has supported proposals affecting Texas’s independent power grid.
In a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Joe Biden, Crockett accused fellow congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans of hypocrisy. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry, and those who brought forth charges against Biden, were ignoring documented evidence of President Donald Trump's own criminal offenses; she displayed photos from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, depicting Trump storing classified documents inside a bathroom, to which she remarked, "These are our national secrets—looks like in the shitter to me."
Crockett also served as a national co-chair of the 2024 Harris–Walz campaign.
In 2025, she was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee.
She later referred to Texas Governor Greg Abbott as "Governor Hot Wheels" and a "Hot Ass Mess" during a speech at a Human Rights Campaign event. Crockett denied that the comment had to do with Abbott's condition, instead saying that it referenced the "planes, trains, and automobiles" he used to transfer migrants to Democratic communities. Representative Randy Weber filed a resolution to censure her.
Congressional Progressive Caucus
Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment