Rhetta Bowers

Representative Bowers was elected to serve House District 113 in the Texas House of Representatives on November 8, 2018. She made history as the first African American of Caribbean descent elected to represent this district. Her mother was a native Texan and father was from St. George’s, Grenada. House District 113 includes parts of Rowlett, Garland and Mesquite and Seagoville. Bowers was drawn to activism at an early age, following the example of her mother, a prominent community leader, and her father, a nationally recognized surgeon. She is an alumna of Spelman College and Texas Southern University, earning her bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, with an emphasis in Broadcast Journalism. Upon graduation, she began a career as a broadcast journalist in public television working at PBS headquarters and for WETA-TV 26/Radio 90.9, in the District of Columbia. She moved on to commercial television once she returned home to Texas working at KCEN-TV 6 in production, and was later promoted to news producer. Bowers has held many positions within the television industry, but it was her job as the educational services coordinator for KERA TV 13/Radio 90.1 that resonated most with…