After being appointed to the bench in August 2019, Texas Supreme Court Justice Jane Bland is running her first campaign for election, against Democratic challenger Kathy Cheng.

While Bland says she has greater qualifications and experience for the bench—six years as a trial judge and 16 as an appellate judge—Cheng argues that voters should pick her because of the breadth of her practice experience in 20 years as a lawyer, and her open-mindedness and willingness to consider new ideas.