Whooa...
I believe she was formerly with the FBI.
“Dallas County has a lesbian sheriff?”
No great shock.
My cousin lives in North Dallas and he says that Dallas was considered
sort of a progressive/utopian kind of town in early years.
Houston had a very politically-active gay population in the 1980s...
but that took a real hit when AIDS/HIV took hold.
IIRC, even one AIDS victim did a swan dive off his high-rise patio;
this was well before the AIDS drug cocktail was developed.