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2026 Texas General Election

2026 Texas Primary Election

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2026 Texas Primary Runoff

Teneshia Hudspeth has a bachelor's degree in communications from Texas Southern University. She is a graduate of Leadership Houston and the Women's Campaign School at Yale University. 

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Teneshia is the Harris County Clerk and Chief Election Official. She has worked at the Harris County Clerk's Office for 19 years and has served in many roles. She was appointed Chief Deputy in January 2020 and elected Harris County Clerk.

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Teneshia has worked at the Harris County Clerk's Office for 19 years and has served in many roles. She was appointed Chief Deputy in January 2020 and elected Harris County Clerk.

Teneshia is currently the Harris County Clerk. She was first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2022. She is the first African-American woman to serve in this role.

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For Candidate Teneshia Hudspeth on Issue Administration:  
Commits to upholding high standards of transparency, efficiency, and accuracy in the election process while providing voters with necessary information and assistance.

Commits to upholding high standards of transparency, efficiency, and accuracy in the election process while providing voters with necessary information and assistance.

Launched online systems for purchasing birth certificates and digitized over 1.2 million marriage licenses and records archived on microfilm.

Restructured the office floor plan to improve traffic flow and successfully conducted pilot programs for extended hours for vital statistics services.

- Commits to upholding high standards of transparency, efficiency, and accuracy in the election process while providing voters with necessary information and assistance.
- Launched online systems for purchasing birth certificates and digitized over 1.2 million marriage licenses and records archived on microfilm.
- Restructured the office floor plan to improve traffic flow and successfully conducted pilot programs for extended hours for vital statistics services.

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- Serves as clerk of county’s commissioners court, attending and recording all sessions, as well as holding all records associated with the Court. Also assists county judge in court agenda preparation and posting notice for each meeting, along with other services requested by the Court.
- Works with judges, defendants, jurors, and attorneys of various courts, doing things like filing cases, issuing processes, maintaining minutes of court proceedings, collecting costs and fines, and arranging for commitments and appeals.
Administers all county and state elections as chief elections officer, except when the Commissioners Court has the tax assessor-collector or county elections administrator do that.
- Can serve as county recorder, where they determine whether a document is suitable for filing.They maintain documents like birth, death, and marriage certificates and real estate records, and act as a liaison to the Vital Statistics Section of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
- County clerks are elected through partisan, county-wide elections to four-year terms. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years old, have been a Texas resident for at least 12 consecutive months, a county resident for at least six consecutive months, and registered to vote in that county.
- The annual salary for county clerks range from $42,000 to $183,999, set by the county’s commissioners court.

Serves as clerk of county court and commissioners court.

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