Michael Landrum has twice presided over different district courts in Harris County and will have to beat a prominent labor and family law attorney to preside over a third court.

Nicole Perdue, of counsel at Perdue & Kidd, has practice law since graduating in 1996 from South Texas College of Law, where she was chief notes and comment editor of the law review and earned national titles in the school's advocacy program and membership in the National Order of Barristers and the Order of the Lytae.