Barbara Gervin Hawkins (born April 3, 1954) is an American politician. She is a Democratic member of the

Texas House of Representatives The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. As of the 2010 United States census, each member represents abou ...

, representing the 120th District. She defeated incumbent Laura Thompson, an independent, in the November 2016 general election.

Biography

Gervin-Hawkins was raised in

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by a single mother of six. She graduated from

Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta ...

in 1975 with a degree in accounting. Her first job was at the

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. She moved to

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, after her brother, professional

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player

George Gervin George Gervin ( ; born April 27, 1952), nicknamed "the Iceman", is an American former professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Virginia Squires, ...

, who played for the

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, hired her as his personal accountant. In 1991, the siblings founded the George Gervin Youth Center in San Antonio.

References

External links

State legislative page
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