Her father is longtime state Rep. and Sen. Jack Ogg, a conservative Democrat. But she&apos;s been an assistant district attorney when that office was headed by a Republican, and she ran as a Republican for a district court seat in 1996. During the 1990s, she was the gang task force director for the city of Houston, where she worked with a police officer named Adrian Garcia — who was elected last year as the new Democratic county sheriff.