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Super Tuesday came and went with some surprise results in primaries for Texas judicial benches.

A number of incumbent judges were swept from their seats. Meanwhile, the election finally decided many races, since a number of primary winners are not facing opponents in the November general election.

Texas Lawyer has been covering election results. Here's a collection of our articles.

Texas Republicans Reject Ex-Judge, Sanctioned for Groping 3 Women

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Republican voters in Corpus Christi rejected a return to the bench for an ex-judge, who in 2019 received a judicial conduct sanction and was convicted of public intoxication. Former Judge Guy Williams, who challenged 347th District Judge Missy Medary in the Republican Primary, lost that effort by a landslide on Super Tuesday. He received only 3,235 votes, or 20%, while Medary won 12,737 votes, or 80% of the ballot, according to election results from the Texas Secretary of State's Office. Now Medary will compete in the November general election against Deborah Rios, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary.

Off the Bench: Sanctioned Texas Judge Loses Bid for Reelection

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A rural Texas judge—who was sanctioned for using his power to help his court coordinator, by interfering in her family's cases in another judge's court—has lost his bid for reelection. The jurist, 402nd District Judge Jeff Fletcher of Wood County, lost the Republican Party primary election to challenger Brad McCampbell. Dec. 31 is set to be Fletcher's last day on the bench.

 

No Future for Men in Democratic Party? Female Dems Oust 8 Male Judges in Texas

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Female Democratic challengers ousted five incumbent male judges in Houston, two in Austin and one in San Antonio. In the statewide races for the Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, women also beat their male primary opponents to win the Democratic nominations. Election experts told Texas Lawyer that the trend results from Democratic primaries drawing out more female voters, who in recent elections have expressed a preference for voting for women candidates. That type of gender preference comes out strongest in down-ballot races, like judicial elections, where voters have very little information about the candidates.

Meet the Winners of Texas Races for Judges of District, Intermediate Appellate Courts

Texas Lawyer is reporting the results of contested primary election races across Texas. Read on to learn what happened in races for Texas' intermediate appellate courts and district courts strewn across the state.

With Primary Over, Many Candidates for Judge in Austin Have Just Won Election

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With a dearth of Republican candidates running for judge in Travis County, the Democratic primary election has decided many district court races well ahead of the November elections. Two races ended in upsets for male incumbent judges who were ousted by female Democratic challengers. The judges who are off the bench are 167th District Judge David Wahlberg and 345th District Judge Tim Sulak.

 

 

Texas Election Results: November Battles Brewing for Dallas-Fort Worth Judgeships

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The sleepy primary election season in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, which featured a handful of contested races for judicial candidates, ended with few surprises after Election Day on Tuesday. One race for a justice position on Forth Worth's Second Court of Appeals is headed for a runoff between Republican candidates Brian Walker and Elizabeth Beach, as is one race for the Dallas County Criminal District Court No. 3.

 

Super Tuesday Winners for Judge in San Antonio Tee Up for November Showdowns

Two Bexar County district court judges were ousted in their party primaries after they lost their races to Democratic challengers. Incumbent jurists—37th District Judge Michael Mery and 386th District Judge Arcelia Treviño—lost their primary races. Here's how other judicial elections in Bexar County turned out, based on tallies from the Texas Secretary of State's Office.

Houston, Meet Your New Judges: Election Results Are In

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Five district court judges in Houston have been ousted from their benches by female challengers in the Democratic Primary election. Rather than a partisan sweep, it's a different sort of sweep: Males being voted out of office as voters picked women to become candidates in the November general election.

 

 

See Who Won Candidacies for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Races

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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Bert Richardson has won the Republican primary against challenger Gina Parker. Richardson, the only incumbent judge on the high court who was facing a primary challenger, won 52% of the 1.71 million votes cast, compared with 48% of the vote that went to Parker. Here are the results of the other races for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

 

Election Winners Gear for Texas Supreme Court Races

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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. Here are the results of other high court races.