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Shelley Tatum

Democratic · Texas · 2026

Running for Texas House District 9, Texas

Top priorities

From the campaign site

  • Increase state funding for public school districts and oppose the state voucher program
  • Protect groundwater under the rule of capture from large-scale extraction
  • Support state funding for rural hospitals and physicians
Biography

Shelley Tatum is the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 9 and a retired educator with 35 years of teaching experience in Texas public schools, including 19 years in Lufkin ISD, per her campaign site. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications and English from Stephen F. Austin State University and is a lifelong East Texan raised in Lufkin, per her campaign site.

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