Adelita Grijalva grew up seeing strangers approach her father, the late Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, who spent more than 50 years in elected office, including two decades as a congressman from Arizona.

“Anywhere we’d go, we’d go to a restaurant, the people would be standing there, staring.”

She and her sisters became a part of his entourage.

“We were, like, staffing him all the time: ‘Yeah, that guy wants to take a picture’ [or] ‘That lady wants to talk to you,’” she said. And he’d talk. “That’s just the way he was.”

Grijalva says her father modeled how to stay humble in office, a lesson she plans to put into practice once she’s sworn in to represent Arizona’s 7th District. But when that will happen still remains in question.

More than a month after winning a special election to replace her

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