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The Texas Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and eight justices. All nine positions are elected, with a term of office of six years and no term limit. The Texas Supreme Court was established in 1846 to replace the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas. It meets in downtown Austin, Texas in an office building near the Texas State Capitol.
The Chief Justice of Texas presides at the Texas Supreme Court, which is the top appellate court for civil matters in the Texas court system. The chief justice (and all the justices) are elected statewide in partisan elections. The term of the chief justice is six years. The position was created in the Texas Constitution of 1876. The most ...
The Texas Office of Court Administration provides information and research, technology services, budgetary and legal support, and other administrative assistance to a variety of judicial branch entities and courts, under the supervision of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Chief Justice. [27]
The county judge is a constitutional position, said Peter McGuill, director for the V.G. Young Institute of County Government at Texas A&M. It was initially named chief justice and appointed by ...
Kem Thompson Frost, the Chief Justice of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, is known as an independent thinker and prolific dissenter. She wrote a total of 21 concurring or dissenting opinions in FY 2018 while her counterpart in the First Court of Appeals, Chief Justice Sherry Radack, wrote none. [54]
The Court is composed of a presiding judge and eight judges (unlike the Texas Supreme Court which is composed of a chief justice and eight justices). Each judge serves a six-year term beginning January 1 and ending December 31, and the judges are elected in staggered partisan elections.
The Court had a Chief Justice and originally four district judges who served as associate judges. [15] This was expanded to five in 1838 [16] and seven in 1840. [17] The first Chief Justice was James Collinsworth, who was an ally of Sam Houston, the president-elect of the new republic.
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