The University of Houston Law Center is the law school of the University of Houston in Houston,Texas. Founded in 1947,the Law Center is one of 12 colleges of the University of Houston,a state university. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The law school's facilities are located on the university's 667-acre campus in southeast Houston.
John Harris Whitmire is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd mayor of Houston,the most populous city in Texas,since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party,Whitmire was previously a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1973 until 1983,and the Texas State Senate from 1983 to 2023. In the state senate,he represented District 15,which included much of northern Houston.
The Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for civil matters in the U.S. state of Texas. A different court,the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,is the court of last resort in criminal matters.
Donny Ray Willett is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2018 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was previously a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from 2005 to 2018.
Sharon Faye Keller is the Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She is a Republican.
Joan J. Huffman is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Texas Senate who represents District 17,which includes portions of Brazoria,Fort Bend,and Harris county.
Eva Martinez Guzman is an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served as a member of the Texas Supreme Court from 2009 to 2021. In 2022,she became a partner at Wright Close &Barger,LLP in Houston,Texas.
James Patrick Sharp Jr.,known as Jim Sharp,is a former justice of the First Texas Court of Appeals,based in Houston,Texas,serving from January 2009 to December 2014.
Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Texas Senate representing the eighth district and as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Cathleen Cochran Herasimchuk,was a judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A resident of Austin,Texas,she was initially appointed to the court on September 28,2001 by Governor Rick Perry and elected by Texas voters in 2002 and 2008. She did not seek re-election to the bench in 2014 and was succeeded in her Place 9 seat by her fellow Republican,David Newell of Houston. She died on February 7,2021.
Jeffrey Vincent Brown is a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and a former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Donald Trump.
Barbara Parker Hervey is a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals;she holds the Place 7 seat.
Tony Dale Tinderholt is an American politician who is Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington,Texas currently representing District 94. On January 13,2015,Tinderholt succeeded Diane Patrick,a four-term representative whom he unseated in the Republican primary election on March 4,2014.
Elsa R. Alcala,also known as Elsa Spjut,is a former Republican official who most recently served (2011–2018) as one of the nine judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was appointed to the Place 8 on the bench by then Governor Rick Perry,when Charles Holcomb stepped down to run in 2012 for the United States Senate. On July 16,2019 she announced she was leaving the Republican Party to support Democrats at the state and national level.
The 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 6,2018. All of Texas's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat,and all of Texas's thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. The Republican and Democratic Parties nominated their candidates by primaries held March 6,2018. Convention Parties nominated their candidates at a series of conventions. County Conventions held March 17,2018,District Conventions held March 24,2018,and a State Convention held April 14,2018. At the present time there is only one Convention Party in Texas,that is the Libertarian Party. Other parties may seek to achieve ballot access.
Texas state elections in 2020 were held on Tuesday,November 3,2020. Its primaries were held on March 3,2020,with runoffs taking place on July 14.
Robert Carl "Bert" Richardson,is an American judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,to which he was elected in 2014.
Michael Edward Keasler,was a judge of the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,the state court of last resort for criminal cases in Texas,from January 1999 to December 2020.
The 2022 Texas elections were held on November 8,2022. Primary elections were held on March 1,with runoffs held on May 24 for primary candidates who did not receive a majority of the vote.
The 2024 Texas elections will be held on November 5,2024. Primary elections took place on March 5,2024. If needed runoff elections will take place on May 28,2024.
