Jessica Babendure

Jessica Babendure is excited to serve Spring and ensure local tax dollars provide the highest level of fire suppression, emergency medical care and risk reduction.

A suburban Chicago native, Jessica has called Spring home since 2007 when Jessica and her soon-to-be husband, Shawn, moved to Spring so he could volunteer with the Spring Fire Department. Ten years later Shawn Babendure was named District Chief of Volunteers. Jessica has been a stay-at-home mom to their children since 2011. Her most difficult work was caring for her husband during his almost to two year battle with brain cancer before he passed away in 2020.

The Babendure family’s unwavering support for the Spring Fire Department has continued with Jessica’s service on the board of the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System (TESRS) and now as a Harris County Emergency Services District No. 7 commissioner.

Jessica earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Masters of Music in Trombone Performance from the University of Colorado in Boulder before moving to Texas to start her music career where she focused on teaching private lessons to promising young musicians in The Woodlands.

An avid quilter, Jessica enjoys making and donating quilts to Klein ISD students in need. While her two children keep her very busy, she finds time for public service, pilates and trying out new Spring restaurants or coffee shops.