Meet Audrey Lee: The 19-year-old who won the GOP primary for Fort Bend County District Clerk

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools across Texas in 2020, Audrey Lee was in seventh grade. As many students worked to keep up with unfamiliar virtual learning systems, she accelerated. “I realized there was a lot more I could get done than what the school day was providing,” she told KPRC 2’s Michael Horton. She cruised through her coursework, and after spending a year and a half at a private high school, she made another bold decision: graduating early as a homeschooler. At 15 years old, she enrolled full-time at Wharton County Junior College’s Sugar Land campus. Now 19, she’s a senior at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School and, as of Tuesday night, the Republican nominee for Fort Bend County District Clerk. Tuesday night, she won her primary by more than 2,500 votes. If elected in November, she would become one of the youngest women to hold county office in Texas.