Election Winners Gear for Texas Supreme Court Races
The lineup for November for four Texas Supreme Court races is set after the Democratic primary election Tuesday chose the Democratic candidates who will compete against uncontested Republican incumbent justices.
March 04, 2020 at 09:51 AM
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Democrat Amy Clark Meachum of Austin will compete in November to become chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court against Republican incumbent Chief Justice Nathan Hecht.
Election results from the Texas Secretary of State's Office show that in the Democratic primary election, Meachum won 80% of the 1.54 million votes cast, compared with 20% for opponent Jerry Zimmerer, a justice on Houston's 14th Court of Appeals.
Meachum currently presides over Travis County's 201st District Court, a bench she has held since 2011. Read more about her here.
Here are the results of other races.
|Justice, Place 6
Kathy Cheng will be the Democrat to compete against incumbent Republican Justice Jane Bland in November. Cheng won 75% of the ballot, or 1.14 million votes, compared with 386,267 votes to challenger Larry Praeger.
Since 2015, Cheng has been in private practice as a member in Cheng & Associates in Houston. She's a certified mediator and arbitrator with 17 years of experience as a litigator. In the past, she was an adjudication officer for the City of Houston from 2013 to 2019. Read more about her here.
|Justice, Place 7
The closest race was won by Staci Williams, who earned 65% of the votes compared with 35% to Brandy Voss in the Democratic Primary. Williams will compete in November against incumbent Republican Justice Jeff Boyd, who was unopposed in his primary.
Williams is the current judge of the 101st District Court in Dallas County, a bench that she has held since 2015. Read more here.
|Justice, Place 8
Gisela D. Triana of Austin won a landslide victory in the Democratic primary race for Texas Supreme Court Justice, Place 8. She earned 1.09 million votes, or 72%, compared with challenger Peter Kelly's 419,392 votes, or 28%.
Triana, who has served as a justice on Austin's Third Court of Appeals since January 2019, will go on to compete against incumbent Justice Brett Busby, who ran unopposed in the Republican primary.
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