Cassandra Hernandez is an experienced trial lawyer, community volunteer, and committed Democrat who is running for State Representative in the 2024 election cycle. As a lawyer, Cassandra is passionate about representing individuals and defending their rights. It is because of her strong desire to help people that she became a lawyer and now seeks to help more people through public service. Cassandra understands that Texas today needs leaders with a servant heart, new ideas and fresh perspectives to tackle tough problems.
Cassandra knows we need practical solutions to many challenges, from fully funding public schools, to stopping gun violence, to increasing access to healthcare, ensuring strong public safety and addressing the Fentanyl crisis. She is also committed to finding ways for more people to have access to economic opportunity, and protecting homeowners from rising costs.
Cassandra was born in the Texas panhandle, raised by loving grandparents and a single mother after losing her father to gun violence. When Cassandra was little, her mother made a tough choice to leave her hometown for North Texas to give Cassandra opportunities she didn’t have when she was growing up. Cassandra also happily gained a father, a noted local trial lawyer, who adopted her and exposed her to the ability to help others through the practice of law, which became her profession.
After graduating early from Garland’s Naaman Forest High School thanks to amazing public school teachers, Cassandra received a scholarship to attend the University of Houston where she obtained her business degree, and the South Texas College of Law where she obtained her law degree. Today she practices law beside her father as a partner in their law firm, handling both personal injury and immigration cases. Cassandra has been recognized as one of D Magazine’s 2023 Best Lawyers, 2023 Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2023 National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and recently received the Pete Torres Jr. Community Service Award from the State Bar of Texas Hispanic Issues Section.
Cassandra already has experience in Austin. She has advocated and headed up a lobby day in the Capitol as a statewide women’s caucus chair, fought for Medicaid expansion with grassroots organizations, and spoke up as an Everytown Survivor Fellow regarding common sense gun legislation as a survivor of gun violence. Cassandra also served and fought for transparency and ethics as a Commissioner on the City of Dallas Ethics Advisory Commission.
Cassandra is an avid volunteer. She has been a leader, volunteer, and member of many organizations, including: Catholic Charities, Dallas and Galveston-Houston; Genesis Women’s Shelter; Hope’s Door; Dallas Pets Alive; Stewpot; Attitudes & Attire (Boots to Heels); Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Trial Lawyers Association; Dallas Women Lawyers Association; St. Thomas More Society; Dallas Evictions 2020; We Care; Mexican American Bar Association; DFW Muslim Bar Association; Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation; NAACP; LULAC; Texas Bar College; Texas Trial Lawyers Association; JL Turner Legal Association; the Dallas LGBT Bar Association; Sickofit Texas; Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary; Dallas Democratic Forum; Annie’s List; Metrocrest Services; Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce; and Coppell Chamber of Commerce.
When she is not advocating on behalf of others and her community, Cassandra and her husband enjoy spending time with their rescue dog and exploring events and restaurants in North Texas.
Texas families rely on public education. Cassandra Hernandez will fight against Republican attempts to undermine public schools. She will make sure our public schools are fully funded with state funds, and that we take care of teachers, while lowering property taxes.
Cassandra Hernandez will work to implement reasonable gun safety reforms to stop gun violence. She supports the right to bear arms, but she also believes that practical policy changes can save lives without infringing on the 2nd Amendment.
Extremists have taken control of our legislature and repealed rights that women have counted on for decades. This is bad for public health, and bad for the Texas economy as businesses and talent go elsewhere. Cassandra Hernandez will not rest until a woman's right to choose has been restored.
Too many Texans are without health care, or struggling to keep up with the expense. Cassandra Hernandez believes that increasing access to health care is the right thing to do. She also knows that expanding Medicaid will create an influx of billions of dollars into the Texas economy.
Overdoses and tragic deaths caused by Fentanyl and other opioids have been rampant in parts of House District 115. Cassandra Hernandez will take the crisis seriously and support all measures to save lives, provide counseling and mental health support, and prosecute drug dealers.
Texans are overburdened with skyrocketing property taxes and could be paying less if the state government made changes to the budget to support public education. Cassandra Hernandez supports the use of revenue surpluses to fund public schools, in order to provide relief to homeowners.
Cassandra Hernandez wants every Texan to have a fair shot. She will work to protect and grow the middle class, and provide greater access to economic opportunity. Cassandra supports raising the minimum wage. She will work to roll back legislation - passed by the Texas GOP in the last session - that attacked workers and stripped away protections. She wants to restore the right for all public employees to bargain. Recently, Cassandra proudly joined the picket line to support the Stand Up UAW strike in Carrollton.
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