 Lupe Valdez

Guadalupe Valdez (born October 11, 1947) is an American law enforcement official who served as Sheriff of Dallas County, Texas, from 2005 to 2017, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas in the 2018 gubernatorial election, which she lost to the incumbent, Greg Abbott.Valdez was born and raised in San Antonio, as the youngest of eight children of Mexican-American migrant farm worker parents.