Representative Christian D. Menefee of Texas was born in California on April 18, 1988. He graduated from Alief Hastings High School in Houston, Texas, in 2006. He earned a B.B.A. from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2010 and a J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2013. Menefee worked in private legal practice and served as the county attorney for Harris County, Texas, from 2021 to 2025. He was appointed acting county attorney in 2025. In January 2026, he was elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress by special election, succeeding the late Representative Sylvester Turner.