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Lina Maria Hidalgo (born February 19, 1991) is an American politician in the state of Texas. She is the county judge of Harris County, the third-most populous county in the United States. [1] Hidalgo is the first woman and the first Latina to be elected to this office.
David Marcel Fleischer is an American judge currently serving on the Harris County Criminal Court in Texas. [1] He was first elected to the position in 2018, running as a Democrat, and won reelection in 2022. [1] [2] [3] Fleischer is popular online for his unique style of holding defendants accountable while offering guidance. [4] [5]
DaSean Jones (born August 12, 1978) is a Texas District Court Judge in Harris County, Texas. [1] [2] As a member of the Democratic Party, he has been the judge of the Texas 180th District Court since 2019. [1] Jones is running for the 2024 Texas Supreme Court Place 2 election against incumbent Jimmy Blacklock.
A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most populous county, a ...
Jason Luong: [22] [23] First Asian American male (who is of Vietnamese descent) to serve as a district court judge in Harris County, Texas (2019) Alfred J. Hernandez: [103] First Hispanic American male judge in Harris County, Texas; A.D. Azios: [104] First Hispanic American male elected as a criminal district judge in Harris County Texas
Kristen Brauchle Hawkins: [95] First female appointed as a Judge of the Eleventh District Court in Houston, Texas (2019) [Fort Bend County, Harris County and Montgomery County] Irene Gertrude Brown (1911) and Rose Zelosky: [ 96 ] First females to graduate from the University of Texas law school (1914) [ Hays , Travis and Williamson Counties ...
Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with County Courts and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same courthouse. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of Texas, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas, which it oversees.
The county has an elections administrator and elections office, which was non-partisan but under the oversight of Democrat Lina Hidalgo, the Harris County Judge. The State of Texas Legislature passed a law, SB 1750, that asks for the position to be abolished effective September 2023, as the law states that any county with at least 3,500,000 ...