Sheila Jackson Lee was an American politician. She is the U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving in her 13th term in the House, having served since 1995. The district includes most of central Houston. She was a member of the Democratic Party.

Sheila Jackson was born in Queens, New York. She graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens. She earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1975. She married Elwyn Lee in 1973; they had two children.

She died in Houston, Texas, of pancreatic cancer in 2024, aged 74.