Democrat · Louisiana's 3rd District · 2026
Priscilla Gonzalez
Gonzalez grew up in McAllen, Texas, in a Pentecostal family and attended a Christian school.
Biography
Priscilla Gonzalez was born in McAllen, Texas, in a Pentecostal family and attended a Christian private school.1 She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and says she worked three jobs to support herself and pay her college debts.1
Her published career résumé lists running a legal marketing and consulting business since 2024.2 Her professional background is in law firm marketing and consulting, including work at Herrman & Herrman and the Law Office of Rene C. Flores.2 In her account of working in Corpus Christi, she describes supervising eight people.1 She ran for that city's mayor in 2020, and says she moved to Louisiana that year to be closer to family.31
Gonzalez advocates more judicial discretion in sentencing, alternatives to incarceration, treatment for drug offenses and support for people returning from prison.4 Her health care proposals include broader Medicaid eligibility, rural telehealth, stronger community health centers and help training and retaining medical workers in underserved areas.5
She is one of three Democrats in the race, alongside John Day and Caleb Walker; Republicans Clay Higgins and Kate Cotten and candidate Tia LeBrun, who has no party affiliation, complete the field.67 Her campaign also calls for lower prescription costs and greater access to preventive and mental health care, placing health access and criminal justice among her stated priorities.5
Record and controversies
Prior local candidacy ruling
In August 2023, a Lafayette judge disqualified Gonzalez from the mayor president election after finding that she failed to establish the required qualified elector status and year of parish domicile and did not provide adequate evidence of the required tax filings.8 Gonzalez disputed her exclusion, said she had moved to Lafayette in 2020 and announced an appeal; the report's update says the appeal was rejected after being filed an hour late.8 That was a ruling about her 2023 local candidacy; the current Louisiana filing lists her as a qualified candidate in the 2026 congressional field.7