Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, a Democrat who has built a rising national profile as the leader of Texas' largest county, announced Monday that she was taking a temporary leave of absence for treatment of clinical depression.
In a statement addressed to the county's nearly 5 million residents and posted on social media, Hidalgo said she checked herself into a facility outside Texas in late July for inpatient treatment. She said she had been coping with depression “for some time” and that it had been undiagnosed until last month.
