Janie’s parents legally migrated from Mexico to the United States in a quest for a better life. As a middle child of seven siblings, her parents devoted themselves to instilling the importance of hard work and education to achieve the American dream. She graduated from San Benito High School in 1997 and became the first in her family to attend and graduate college with honorary awards with a Master’s in mental health. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Community Care and Counseling.

Biography

Representative Janie Lopez was elected to House District 37 in November 2022, becoming the second Hispanic Republican female elected in Texas and the first in South Texas. Representative Lopez is a former teacher and school counselor. She currently owns her own small business serving as a mental health professional for children, families, and veterans. She resides in San Benito, Texas.

Rep. Janie Lopez Announces Re-Election for Texas House District 37

Janie Lopez earned a master's degree in mental health and is pursuing a doctorate in community care and counseling. She resides in San Benito, Texas.

Rep. Lopez, Janie - District 37 - Texas House of Representatives

Janie has worked in everything from food service, manufacturing, and retail to building a successful career as a mental healthcare professional treating at-risk children, veterans, and first responders with PTSD.

Under her leadership as a Director of the San Benito CISD, student achievement increased and disciplinary referrals were reduced by 66%. She served the lowest-performing campus as a GEAR UP counselor in Brownsville CISD and was instrumental in achieving significant gains across the board with major improvements in the state proficiency rates in Science (#1) and History (#2), achieving a high-performing school status in the district.

Janie Lopez owns a small business and works as a mental health professional serving children, families, and veterans. She previously worked in food service, manufacturing, and retail, and as a GEAR UP counselor in Brownsville Consolidated Independent School District.

Janie owns a small business and works as a mental health professional serving children, families, and veterans. She previously worked in food service, manufacturing, and retail, and as a GEAR UP counselor in Brownsville Consolidated Independent School District.

On November 2022, Janie Lopez made history by becoming the first Republican Hispanic elected as State Representative to represent House District 37, an area in south Texas that includes both Willacy and Cameron Counties.

Lopez flipped the seat to the GOP in 2022.

State Rep. Janie Lopez (R-San Benito) is running for re-election to the Texas House in the Republican primary after she held the seat with a 10-point win over Democrat Jonathan Gracia in 2024.

Incumbent State Rep. Janie Lopez Faces One GOP Challenger in South Texas House Race

Janie currently serves as the state representative for Texas House District 37. She was elected in 2022 and reelected in 2024.

Incumbent State Rep. Janie Lopez Faces One GOP Challenger in ...

2026 Texas General Election

JANIE'S PRIORITIES
Cut Taxes

Create jobs, expand economic opportunities, and lower property taxes to provide much needed tax relief for our families and small businesses.

Janie's Priorities

JANIE'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Cutting Our Taxes

Cut taxes for families, seniors, and small businesses by raising school homestead tax exemptions, blocking new capital gains and death taxes, and exempted border security infrastructure from property taxes.

Janie's Accomplishments

Modernize key tourist attractions and transportation systems.Foster a favorable environment for tourism growth by simplifying regulations and encouraging entrepreneurial ventures.

Plans to create jobs, expand economic opportunities, and lower property taxes for families and small businesses.

Says she increased school property-tax exemptions for homeowners, opposed new capital-gains and estate taxes, and exempted border-security infrastructure from property taxes.

Plans to simplify regulations and encourage new businesses to support tourism growth.

- Plans to create jobs, expand economic opportunities, and lower property taxes for families and small businesses.
- Says she increased school property-tax exemptions for homeowners, opposed new capital-gains and estate taxes, and exempted border-security infrastructure from property taxes.
- Plans to simplify regulations and encourage new businesses to support tourism growth.

Economy

Keeping Us Safe

Improved public safety by denying bail to violent offenders, requiring cooperation with immigration law, funding grants to solve violent and sexual crimes, backing law enforcement officers, and stopped foreign adversaries from buying Texas land.

Keep Us Safe

Reduce crime, invest in border security, support our local law enforcement and boost their pay to ensure that our families and communities are safe.

Says she supported denying bail to violent offenders, cooperation on immigration-law enforcement, and grants to help solve violent and sexual crimes.

Plans to reduce crime, invest in border security, and support local law enforcement officers, including by increasing their pay.

- Says she supported denying bail to violent offenders, cooperation on immigration-law enforcement, and grants to help solve violent and sexual crimes.
- Plans to reduce crime, invest in border security, and support local law enforcement officers, including by increasing their pay.

Public Safety

Increase funding, support pay raises for educators, improve classroom materials, and ensure access to higher education and trade schools for all students.

Expand access, lower premiums, provide pay raises for healthcare providers and cap prescription drug costs for those in need.

Defending Our Values

Defended faith, family, and life by protecting prayer in schools, affirming two genders, strengthening parental oversight, banning taxpayer-funded abortion, cracking down on abortion pill traffickers, and securing Texas elections.

Plans to expand healthcare access, lower premiums, raise provider pay, and cap prescription-drug costs for people in need.

Says she supports banning taxpayer-funded abortion and penalizing abortion-pill trafficking.

- Plans to expand healthcare access, lower premiums, raise provider pay, and cap prescription-drug costs for people in need.
- Says she supports banning taxpayer-funded abortion and penalizing abortion-pill trafficking.

Healthcare

Improve Schools
Boost Healthcare

Increase funding, support pay raises for educators, improve classroom materials, and ensure access to higher education and trade schools for all students.

Expand access, lower premiums, provide pay raises for healthcare providers and cap prescription drug costs for those in need.

Protecting Our Kids

Protected children and families by expanding parental rights, holding schools accountable, cracking down on child exploitation and trafficking, defending women’s spaces, and banning DEI programs in schools.

Improving Our Schools

Delivered major education reforms by securing teacher pay raises, banning cell phones in classrooms, restoring discipline, increasing state funding for local schools by $140M, investing in special education, and fully funding full-day Pre-K.

Supports increased education funding, educator pay raises, improved classroom materials, and access to higher education and trade schools.

Says she supports expanding parental rights, holding schools accountable, and banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in schools.

Says she secured teacher pay raises, restrictions on classroom cell-phone use, investments in special education, and full-day prekindergarten funding.

- Supports increased education funding, educator pay raises, improved classroom materials, and access to higher education and trade schools.
- Says she supports expanding parental rights, holding schools accountable, and banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in schools.
- Says she secured teacher pay raises, restrictions on classroom cell-phone use, investments in special education, and full-day prekindergarten funding.

Education

Bolster Infrastructure

Invest in modernizing roads, bridges, and public transportation systems, upgrade utilities, and water projects to build a more efficient and sustainable infrastructure for our communities.

Boosting Our  Infrastructure

Kept Texas moving forward by investing $3 billion in roads, $2.9 billion in water infrastructure, strengthening grid reliability, launching a $750 million nuclear energy fund, and bolstering disaster response and preparedness.

Plans to modernize transportation, utilities, and water projects to support more efficient and sustainable infrastructure.

Says she supported investments in water infrastructure, grid reliability, a nuclear-energy fund, and disaster preparedness.

- Plans to modernize transportation, utilities, and water projects to support more efficient and sustainable infrastructure.
- Says she supported investments in water infrastructure, grid reliability, a nuclear-energy fund, and disaster preparedness.

Energy & the Environment

As of July 22, 2026, Janie Lopez’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Janie Lopez

- Plans to reduce crime, invest in border security, and support local law enforcement officers, including by increasing their pay.

Janie Lopez is from San Benito, Texas. She has a master 27s degree in mental health and is currently pursuing a doctorate in community care and counseling. She lives in San Benito, Texas.

Janie is a mental healthcare professional. She has also worked in food service, manufacturing, and retail. Before taking office, she served as a trustee for the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District (SBCISD).

Janie is currently a Texas State Representative for House District 37. She was first elected in 2022 and is currently serving her first term.

Supports simplifying regulations and encouraging entrepreneurial ventures to boost tourism.

Supports investing in modernizing infrastructure, including roads, bridges, public transportation, utilities, and water projects, to create a more efficient and sustainable economy.

Supports enhancing retirement benefits and providing access to affordable housing for seniors.

Supports increasing penalties, enhancing government transparency, and enforcing accountability to uphold public trust and ensure effective use of taxpayer resources.

Supports reducing crime, investing in border security, and increasing pay for local law enforcement.

As a state representative, improved public safety by denying bail to violent offenders, requiring cooperation with immigration law, funding grants to solve violent and sexual crimes, backing law enforcement officers, and stopping foreign adversaries from buying Texas land.

As a state representative, worked to increase the number of police officers in schools.

Supports expanding healthcare access, lowering premiums, increasing pay for healthcare providers, and capping prescription drug costs.

Opposes abortion and plans to "crack down on abortion pill traffickers."

Supports increasing funding for education, providing pay raises for educators, improving classroom materials, and ensuring access to higher education and trade schools for all students.

Wants to modernize key tourist attractions and transportation systems.

Wants to create jobs, expand economic opportunities, and lower property taxes to provide tax relief for families and small businesses.

Wants to reduce crime, invest in border security, and support local law enforcement by boosting their pay.

Opposes abortion and said, "Defended faith, family, and life...banning taxpayer-funded abortion...and cracking down on abortion pill traffickers."

Supports increasing state funding for local schools, investing in special education, and fully funding full-day Pre-K.

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