Anna Eastman | |
State House: | Texas |
District: | 148th |
Term Start: | February 11, 2020[1] |
Term End: | January 12, 2021 |
Preceded: | Jessica Farrar |
Successor: | Penny Morales Shaw |
Office1: | Trustee, District I Houston Independent School District |
Term Start1: | 2010 |
Term End1: | 2018[2] |
Party: | Democratic |
Alma Mater: | University of Texas Austin (BFA) Our Lady of the Lake University (MSW) |
Spouse: | Brad |
Children: | Ely EastmanAbigail EastmanHelen Eastman |
Anna Eastman is an American politician. She represented the 148th district in the Texas House of Representatives for under a year from February 2020 to January 2021. On July 14, 2020, Eastman was defeated in her re-election attempt by Penny Morales Shaw.
In 2009, Eastman ran for the District I seat on the Houston Independent School District board. With 41.73% of the vote,[3] she advanced to the December 12 runoff election, which she narrowly won with 50.98% of the vote.[4] She ran for re-election to the school board in 2013, and won with 77.41% of the vote.[5]
In 2019, Eastman ran in a special general election to finish Jessica Farrar's term as the District 148 representative in the Texas House of Representatives, after Farrar announced her retirement.[6] Eastman got 20.6% of the vote, which was the most of any of the six candidates, and advanced to a runoff against Republican Luis LaRotta. The runoff was held on January 28, 2020, and Eastman won with 65.5% of the vote.
Eastman was a candidate for election to a full term in the District 148 seat. She faced off against former congressional advocate and attorney, Penny Morales Shaw. Both candidates had advanced to a runoff election for the Democratic nomination on July 14, 2020.
Eastman sat on the House committees:[7]