Sekula-Gibbs, Shelley, 1953-

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Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (born June 22, 1953) is an American physician and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she serves as a director of The Woodlands, Texas Township board of directors. She briefly served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from November 2006 to January 2007. She previously served as a city councilwoman in Houston, Texas from 2002 to 2006.

Born Shelley Sekula in Floresville, Texas, she graduated from Floresville High School in 1971 and earned a bachelor’s degree from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio in 1975. Four years later, she completed medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. After residencies in family medicine and dermatology, she practiced medicine for more than 20 years. She served as president of the Texas Dermatological Society and taught as a clinical assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical Branch. She married Allen Greenberg, who died suddenly in a drowning accident. She later married Sylvan Rodriguez, a local television newscaster, who died of cancer in 2000. She then married Robert Gibbs, an attorney.

In 2001 Sekula Gibbs was elected as an at-large member of the Houston city council. During her three terms on the council, she focused on health care, working to bring federal money to the city for clinics dedicated to assisting Houston’s uninsured residents. She also was a cofounder of the Ellington Field task force, which successfully fought to keep open the city’s major military air base. After Congressman Tom DeLay resigned from Congress, Sekula-Gibbs was selected as the endorsed Republican write-in candidate for the seat. On November 7, 2006, Sekula-Gibbs lost the general election for the seat to Democrat Nick Lampson, but won the special election to fulfill the remainder of DeLay's term in the final session of the 109th Congress. During her brief time in Congress, Sekula-Gibbs cosponsored several bills relating to border security and Medicare reform and voted for the Tax Relief and Health Care Act.

In 2008, two years after completing her brief term in the 109th Congress, Sekula Gibbs ran for her old seat in the 111th Congress (2009–2011) but lost the Republican nomination to Pete Olson, who went on to unseat Nick Lampson. She returned to her dermatology practice in Clear Lake, Texas, and retired from medicine in 2014. In November of 2019, she won election to the township board of directors of The Woodlands, Texas.

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