(TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa announced her transition team and emphasized that she would build a "bipartisan" administration at a news conference on Thursday, her first public appearance since defeating Gov. Greg Abbott in this week's midterms."This is a transition for the whole state of Texas," Hinojosa said before a crowd of TV cameras, reporters and students at the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs in Austin.

"We will have a bipartisan transition, and we will have a bipartisan administration and government in Texas."Leading the Austin Democrat's transition team as executive director is Joe Madden, former chief of staff to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo.

Former state Rep. Ernest Bailes, who introduced himself as a "conservative Republican," and Ryan Pollock of the Texas State Building and Construction Trades Council will also serve on her team.