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Michelle Gamboa wins Dist. 5 seat on Longview City Council

Gamboa will replace David Wright and represent the Northwest Longview, which includes the Spring Hill area.

LONGVIEW, Texas — After a highly-contested election season, Northwest Longview has selected their new representative.

Michelle Gamboa, 27, will replace David Wright who chose not to seek his final three-year term on the council. 

Gamboa, the operations director at her family's roofing business, is a Spring Hill ISD alum who moved to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 7. She then attended Texas A&M University.

She is funding chair of the Junior League of Longview and is a member of the Longview Greggton Rotary Club, according to the Longview News-Journal.

This is a developing story and CBS19 will update this article as more information becomes available.

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