It's election season, and Texas Lawyer is publishing Q&As with candidates in contested races for district and appellate court benches in the Lone Star State. Early voting runs from Feb. 18 to Feb. 28, and election day is March 3.

Here are candidates running in the contested primary race for the Dallas County Criminal District Judge No. 3.


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Dallas County Criminal District Judge No. 3

In the Democratic Primary, criminal-defense attorney Alison Grinter Allen, former judge Teresa Jan Hawthorne and criminal-defense lawyer Audra Ladawn Riley are competing in the race for Dallas County Criminal District Judge No. 3. No one is running in the Republican Primary for the bench, so the winner of the Democratic race is set to become judge.

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Click the names below to read their Q&As. 

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Alison Grinter Allen

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Teresa Jan Hawthorne

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Audra Ladawn Riley


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