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Judge Antonia “Toni” Arteaga - 1st woman to be elected to the historic 57th District Court which was created in 1899. Irene Gertrude Brown (1911): [105] First female lawyer in San Antonio, Texas [Bexar County, Texas] Lanette Heilbron Glasscock (1931): [106] One of the first practicing female lawyers in Bexar County, Texas.
Harold Valderas: [58] First Latino American male to serve as a judge in North Texas (1971) and district court judge in Central Texas (1977) Don B. Chae: [59] First Asian American male lawyer (1980) and judge (1995) in North Texas. William Melvin Schultz (c. 1960): [60] First Jewish American male lawyer in the Southern District of Texas.
Unlike the county judge, judges of the county courts of law are required to be attorneys. The county courts at law may hear both civil and criminal matters, or hear them separately, depending on how the Legislature has structured them (Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Harris, and Tarrant counties have "county criminal courts" or "county criminal courts ...
Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as ...
Houston Municipal Courts (2001–2008); 215th Civil District Court of Harris County (2009–2012); 334th District Court in Harris County (2012–2020) Texas: lost reelection: Carol Kuhnke [75] Washtenaw County Trial Court (2013– ) Michigan: active: William G. Kocol [64] National Labor Relations Board (Administrative Law Judge: 1992–2013 ...
September 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM. After public outcry, Dallas County Attorney Jeannine Ritchie says she plans to release a summary of a report of the Jan. 4 shootings at Perry High School that left a ...
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. Notwithstanding the label, the position of county judge is for the most part ...
Fox local. Shaun Rabb. September 5, 2024 at 6:29 PM. DALLAS COUNTY, Texas - A man arrested in 2015 for the murder of a woman in 2014 has still not gone to trial. The victim's son contacted FOX 4 ...