President Joe Biden also was scheduled to come to Houston Monday evening to pay his respects to Jackson Lee, according to the White House. Her body will lie in state in Houston’s city hall rotunda for 10 hours. Before being elected to Congress, Jackson Lee served on Houston’s city council from 1990 to 1994. She was only the second person to be granted the honor of lying in state in Houston’s city hall rotunda. Bobbie D. Nickerson, 71, a suburban Houston resident, said Monday’s crowd at city hall for Jackson Lee shows “how much she was loved and cared for and respected.”
