Lizzie Fletcher

Elizabeth Ann Fletcher (née Pannill; born February 13, 1975) is an American attorney and politician from Texas. A Democrat, she has represented Texas's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. The district, which was once represented by former President George H. W. Bush, includes parts of southwestern Houston and Harris County, as well as northern portions of Fort Bend County.

Fletcher was born Elizabeth Ann Pannill at Hermann Hospital in Houston on February 13, 1975. She grew up in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston and graduated from St. John's School.

Fletcher left Texas to attend Kenyon College in Ohio, where she earned Phi Beta Kappa honors, and attended William & Mary Law School in Virginia.

She returned to Houston, where she worked for the law firm Vinson & Elkins, where she met her husband, Scott. Later, she worked at Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing and became the firm's first female law partner.

Fletcher defeated Laura Moser in the Democratic Party primary election after a primary and runoff election that sharply divided Democrats between Fletcher (backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and Moser (backed by Our Revolution).

In the November 6 general election, Fletcher campaigned as a moderate against nine-term Republican incumbent John Culberson, defeating him by five percentage points (52.5% to 47.5%). Culberson carried his longstanding base of west Houston, parts of which he had represented for three decades at the state and federal levels, and the Memorial area, but could not overcome Fletcher's strong performance in the district's share of southwest Houston and the Bear Creek area. The 7th had historically been one of the most, if not the most, conservative districts in Houston and in Texas; underscoring this, Fletcher was only the third Democrat to win as much as 40 percent of the vote since the district was created in 1967.

Upon her swearing-in on January 3, 2019, Fletcher became the first Democrat and woman to represent the district.

Fletcher was reelected with 50.8% of the vote to Republican nominee Wesley Hunt's 47.5%. Despite winning by a smaller margin than 2018, she held down-ballot drop-off voting to less than 4% from top-ballot candidate Joe Biden, who carried the district with 54% of the vote.^{[citation needed]}