Asking your significant other to pick up something from the grocery store might seem like a typical domestic task. But for Kathy Hubbard, it was more complicated.
It’s not that she couldn’t trust her spouse to get everything on their list. “She will get stopped by so many people who want to talk to her,” Hubbard explains. Plus, a simple grocery store run often required a security detail.
Hubbard’s wife is Annise Parker, who was elected to three terms as Houston’s mayor, from 2010 to 2016, and before that served on City Council and as city controller. Hubbard has been at her side through all of it, first as Parker’s life partner in the 1990s, and then as wife when they married in 2014…