Jess Herbst, born Jeff Herbst in 1959, is the first openly transgender mayor in the state of Texas. She is the Mayor of New Hope, Texas. Ms. Herbst has been active in local government since 2003 as an elected alderman, and road commissioner. In May 2016 the then-current mayor suffered a heart attack and died, Herbst as the longest-serving alderman was appointed the mayor of the town.

Jess Herbst runs her own computer services business. She started her career by selling the personal computers and continued on to become an image processing expert creating custom systems for The American Museum of Natural History, Exxon, Boeing, Cathay Pacific, McDonnell Douglas and others.

Sources:

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-first-openly-transgender-mayor

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4181352/Texas-town-mayor-Jess-Herbst-comes-transgender.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38831833

http://jessherbst.com/

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