Victoria Neave

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Victoria Neave
File:Victoria Neave 2021 (cropped).jpg
Neave in 2021
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 107th district
Assumed office
January 10, 2017
Preceded by Kenneth Sheets
Personal details
Born (1980-12-29) December 29, 1980 (age 43)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Residence Dallas
Education Tulane University
Dallas College
University of Texas, Dallas (BA)
Texas Southern University (JD)

Victoria Neave Criado (born December 29, 1980) is an American attorney and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 107 in Dallas County, Texas. In the general election held on November 8, 2016, she unseated Republican Representative Kenneth Sheets in the most expensive Texas House race of the 2016 cycle.[1] Neave was sworn into office on January 10, 2017.[2][3]

During the 2017 Legislative Session, State Rep. Victoria Neave attended Catholic mass at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Dallas, asked the priest for a blessing and received Holy Communion as she started a spiritual fast to oppose an anti “sanctuary city” bill that the Texas House was going to debate.[4]

Neave was arrested in June 2017 on a Driving While Intoxicated charge after she allegedly crashed her BMW into a tree within district 107 at 11:30 p.m. She allegedly repeatedly told arresting officers that "I love you and I want to fight for you, and I invoke the Fifth Amendment."[5] Neave said after her arrest that she was "deeply sorry, and will accept the consequences of my actions, and will work to make this right."[5] As a local attorney and legislator, concerns were expressed at favoritism by police and prosecutors towards Neave.[6] In its 2018 endorsement of Neve, the Dallas Morning News editorial board wrote that "She accepted full responsibility and didn't use her role as an elected official to try to get out of trouble."[7]

Neave was reelected to her second term in the general election held on November 6, 2018, when she defeated the Republican candidate, Deanna Maria Metzger, 28,923 (57.1 percent) to 21,770 (42.9 percent).[8]

Neave was selected as one of seventeen speakers to jointly deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.[9]

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Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 107th district
2017–present		 Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Keynote Speaker of the Democratic National Convention
2020
Served alongside: Stacey Abrams, Raumesh Akbari, Colin Allred, Brendan Boyle, Yvanna Cancela, Kathleen Clyde, Nikki Fried, Robert Garcia, Malcolm Kenyatta, Marlon Kimpson, Conor Lamb, Mari Manoogian, Jonathan Nez, Sam Park, Denny Ruprecht, Randall Woodfin		 Most recent


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