A bill to name part of U.S. Highway 67 after trailblazing Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson is on the governor’s desk.

The resolution was passed Sunday and would commemorate the late Johnson’s 30 years in Congress. The Democrat represented Texas' 30th Congressional district, including parts of Dallas and Tarrant counties, from 1993 until 2023.

“It's a tremendous honor,” said Dawrence Kirk Johnson, Eddie Bernice Johnson’s son. “That expressway or freeway is in the heart of the area that she served for 30 years in Congress and then even more years before that in the state legislature.”

Born in Waco in 1935, Johnson started her political career as a Texas representative in 1972 as the first Black woman ever elected in Dallas. The former chief psychiatric nurse at the Dallas Vetera

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