Born and raised in Houston, Manpreet Monica Singh is a proud Texan and fierce advocate for her hometown.  As the daughter of immigrants from India, she learned the value of hard work, the American dream, and service from an early age.  These ideals helped mold her into the person that she is today and cemented her strong respect for the law and pursuit of justice.
Even before Monica’s birth, time and circumstance played a huge role in what precipitated her formative years.  Her father, AJ immigrated to the U.S. as an architect in the early 1970s after being issued a green card following the Immigration Act of 1965.  As a young, turbaned Sikh and a then bachelor, he followed work wherever regardless of where it would take him.  He found himself in Miami, New Jersey, and Atlanta before finally putting down roots in Houston. Although he faced blatant discrimination time and time again, AJ and his wife of 50 years, Hardeep, remained focused on their ultimate goal of achieving the American dream. They owned and operated a successful small business (a print shop) and it flourished with the help of sweat equity from their two children. This doggedness and grit were inherited by Monica – and they are attributes that she has brought to the bench. Being a woman of color, she is all too familiar with systems of inequality and she is empathetic to the hardships that the average American faces while trying to achieve their own dreams