Kim Ogg

Her programs have helped more than 6,000 people with mental illness to get the help they need rather than a jail cell as part of an effort program to end cycles of arrest. She also received the Lone Star Award in December 2021 for her "outstanding leadership and distinctive contributions" to substance abuse and recovery support.

Houston Watch, an activist organization that focuses nearly exclusively on Ogg, reported that she accepted over $25,000 of campaign contributions from Ali Davari, who owns strip clubs. In July 2019, Ogg's office dismissed the criminal charges against an alleged local gambling ring and referred the case by former contract employee Amir Mireskandari to the FBI. Mireskandari and his wife contributed $14,475 in monetary and in-kind donations to Ogg's campaign between 2016 and 2017. He was also a member of Ogg's campaign finance committee.

Harris County in 2019 enacted reforms that were intended to end the use of cash bail for misdemeanor defendants after a federal judge found the county's bail system to be unconstitutional and a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. During Ogg's tenure as district attorney, she has been a strong critic of bail reform and the perceived leniency of judges toward people accused of crimes. This stance has placed her in alignment with Republican county commissioners and in opposition to many local Democrats such as Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo. Her office has provided statistics which they claim demonstrates an increase in people charged with violent crimes who are being released from jail due to low bond amounts and then going on to commit more crimes. These claims have not been independently verified. An independent monitor appointed by the court found that misdemeanor bail reform has been successful in reducing misdemeanor arrests and reducing wasteful county spending.

In an effort to see that public safety resources are used to actually keep the public safer, Kim Ogg in early 2017 initiated a program that took a new approach: no one caught with under four ounces of marijuana, a misdemeanor amount, is subjected to arrest and the possibility of a criminal record. The program has given people the ability to avoid a criminal record and still be eligible for a job, an apartment or federal financial assistance. In 2022, she spoke in support of arrests for marijuana possession in cases where it coincides with gun possession, because it is illegal in Texas to carry a gun while in possession of marijuana. This has resulted in "dozens of cases being dismissed every month" because Ogg's prosecutors are unable to prove that people being arrested are carrying marijuana, which is illegal in Texas, rather than hemp, which is legal.

Ogg began her legal career working for a District Attorney Johnny Holmes in 1987. She was appointed as the first director for Houston's Anti-Gang Task Force in 1994 and unsuccessfully ran for district judge as a Republican in the 1996 election. Ogg was the executive director of Crime Stoppers of Houston from 1999 to 2006 before leaving to practice law with her father.

Born in 1959 in Houston, Ogg attended the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law Houston, graduating with her BA in journalism in 1981 and her JD in 1986 respectively. She and her longtime partner met while studying at South Texas College of Law, and they have one son who attends The University of Texas School of Law. She is the daughter of Texas legislator and Democrat Jack Ogg, and philanthropist Connie Harner Ogg.