Dallas underwent a judicial revolution of sorts 12 years ago when its voters decided to elect Democratic candidates to every one of its district and county-level benches. And since making a clean break with the Republican party in 2006, the electorate in Texas’ third-largest city has seemingly fallen in love with a specific kind of Democrat judicial candidate—the African-American woman.

Of the 60 state and county trial courts in Dallas County, 19 of them are presided over by black female judges. And after the March 6 Democratic Primary Election—the only election that matters in the solid-blue county—Dallas’ judiciary is poised to become even more diverse as black women are either challengers or unchallenged incumbents in many of the county’s 40 judicial elections.

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