Nicole Collier

Education

University of Houston.

Career

Collier succeeded her fellow African American, Marc Veasey, who was instead elected to the United States House of Representatives from Texas"s 33rd congressional district. Later, after starting in custodial services, he became one of the first African-American plate printers at the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Walter’s son, Rolland Johnson, Senior, Nicole"s father, served in the United States Navy and continued the family legacy as a union worker and a plate-printing foreman at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

He also attended Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia Shirley Johnson, her mother, was a leader in community youth ministries.

A 1996 graduate of the University of Houston, Nicole was a single mother in high school but determined to pursue formal education. She graduated from the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, now Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University School of Law.

Achievements

• In the November 4, 2014 general election, Collier won her second term in the Texas House by handily defeated the Republican candidate, Albert G. McDaniel (born 1954), a staunch conservative backed by the Tea Party movement, 21,908 (758 percent) to 7,002 (242 percent).