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This category is for people who are or have been County Judge of counties in the state of Texas. (In Texas, the County Judge is the chief executive of the county, similar to the mayor of a city, though with far less actual authority.) For judges of state courts, see Category:Texas state court judges
Since the county judge is also responsible for presiding over the Commissioners Court (the main executive and legislative body of the county), in 94 counties the Texas Legislature has established county courts at law to relieve the county judge of judicial duties. The first multi-county statutory county court (composed of Fisher, Mitchell, and ...
A medical examiner is always a medical doctor, whereas a coroner is a judicial officer. [9] Pilot studies in Sheffield and seven other areas, which involved medical examiners looking at more than 27,000 deaths since 2008, found 25% of hospital death certificates were inaccurate and 20% of causes of death were wrong.
In each of Texas’ 254 counties, the person with the highest political prominence is the county judge. The county judge oversees a four-person court of commissioners who each represent a precinct ...
Eleven people have died in the last eight days due to heat-related illnesses in Webb County, Texas, the county medical examiner said. 11 deaths attributed to unprecedented heat in Texas county ...
The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state ...
Nizam Peerwani is the chief medical examiner for Tarrant County, Texas. Locally, he is notable for his role in the David Koresh–Mount Carmel incident in Waco, Texas and in the trial of Chante Jawan Mallard for the murder of Gregory Glenn Biggs. [1] Among his work includes the evaluation of genocide and human rights violations within Rwanda ...
Members of the Lubbock County Commissioners Court and others gather to break ground on the new Medical Examiner's Office Building.