David Michael Medina is a former Justice of the nine-member Texas Supreme Court. He served in the Place 4 position. He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry in 2004 and subsequently elected to a full-term in 2006. Medina was defeated in the Republican runoff election in 2012 by John P. Devine. His tenure ended on December 31,2012. All members of the court are Republican.
The Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) 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 (CCA),is the court of last resort in criminal matters.
Nathan Lincoln Hecht is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. A Republican from Dallas,Hecht was first elected to the Supreme Court in 1988 and was reelected to six-year terms in 1994,2000 and 2006. He secured his fifth six-year term on November 6,2012. He was appointed chief justice by Governor Rick Perry on September 10,2013,and was sworn into that position by retiring Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson on October 1,2013.
The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas,all cases appealed from district and county courts,criminal and civil,go to one of the fourteen intermediate courts of appeals,with one exception:death penalty cases. The latter are taken directly to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,the court of last resort for criminal matters in the State of Texas. The highest court for civil and juvenile matters is the Texas Supreme Court. While the Supreme Court (SCOTX) and the Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) each have nine members per the Texas Constitution,the sizes of the intermediate courts of appeals are set by statute and vary greatly,depending on historical case filings and so that the justices on each court can timely adjudicate the volume of cases regularly before them. The total number of intermediate appellate court seats currently stands at 80,ranging from three,four,six,seven,nine,and thirteen (Dallas) per court.
Philip Wayne Johnson,is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas,serving from 2005–2018.
Daniel C. Morales is an American politician. He served as the 48th Attorney General of Texas from January 15,1991 through January 13,1999,during the administrations of Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. As Attorney General,Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco companies.
John Luke Hill Jr. was a Texas lawyer,Democratic politician,and judge. He is the only person to have served as Secretary of State of Texas,Texas Attorney General,and Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
Joan J. Huffman is a Republican member of the Texas Senate who represents District 17,which includes a portion of populous Harris County.
Eva Martinez Guzman is an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served as a Republican member of the Texas Supreme Court from 2009 to 2021.
Richard Arlin Green,known as Rick Green,is an attorney and politician from Dripping Springs in Hays County,Texas,who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives. He unsuccessfully sought a seat on the Texas Supreme Court in 2010,having been defeated in the Republican runoff election by Judge Debra Lehrmann.
Debra Ann H. Lehrmann is a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court,the court of last resort for civil and juvenile matters located in the capital city of Austin in the U.S. state of Texas. She is a former 360th Judicial District Court judge from Fort Worth.
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.
James Earl White is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 19,which encompasses Polk,Hardin,Jasper,Newton,and Tyler counties. He was first elected in District 12 in 2010,which then included Angelina,San Jacinto,Trinity,and Tyler counties.
Robert Edwin Talton,Sr.,is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 144 in Pasadena in Harris County,near Houston,Texas. His service extended from 1993 to 2009.
Mark James Keough is a businessman and a Christian pastor,radio host,and educator from The Woodlands,Texas,who has been serving as the Montgomery County County Judge since January 2019. He previously served as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 15 in suburban Montgomery County north of Houston. On May 31,2017,Keough announced that he would not be running for re-election in 2018 to the Texas House but would instead contest the office of County Judge. On November 6,2018,Keough defeated Democrat Jay Stittleburg by a three-to-one margin.
Ron Reynolds is an American lawyer and politician who is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives representing state District 27. He was first elected in 2010. Reynolds was also an attorney in private practice with the Brown,Brown &Reynolds law firm,but was suspended from the practice of law. He was disbarred on July 29,2019. Additionally,Reynolds has served as a Houston Associate Municipal Judge.
David Christopher Newell is an American judge,who serves on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,the court of last resort in criminal cases within Texas. A resident of Houston,Newell was elected to the court in 2014 to succeed the retiring Place 9 Judge Cathy Cochran.
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,the court of last resort for state criminal appeals. She was appointed to the Place 8 on the bench by then Governor Rick Perry,when Charles Holcomb stepped down to run unsuccessfully 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.
One justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 8,2016,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
Justin Brett Busby is a current Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and a former Justice of the 14th Court of Appeals of Texas whose six-year term ended December 31,2018. Along with many other Republican incumbents on the State's largest intermediate appellate courts,Busby was defeated in the November 2018 Democratic sweep.
