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Hervey earned her bachelor's degree in 1975 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, and her Juris Doctor on November 12, 1979 from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Prior to becoming a judge, Hervey was an assistant criminal district attorney for Bexar County. [1]
He is the first African American judge on the court since 1998, and the third African American judge on the court in Texas history. [3] Judge McClure was elected to a full term in 2022, recording the largest margin of victory by percentage of any statewide candidate on the ballot. McClure is also the sixth African American to hold statewide ...
The seat is one of three on the court up for election this cycle, alongside the presiding judge and Place 8. The Court of Criminal Appeals is the state’s court of last resort for criminal matters.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) is the court of last resort for all criminal matters in Texas. The Court, which is based in the Supreme Court Building in Downtown Austin, [2] is composed of a presiding judge and eight judges. Article V of the Texas Constitution vests the judicial power of the state and describes the Court's ...
State Bar’s Highway Award for pro bono legal service to the poor, lead counsel to TSRA and 47 other state associations in Heller, Commissioner and Chairman of Texas State Commission on Judicial ...
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Prior to his election campaign, he was a defense attorney in Fort Worth, Texas. [3] He was 63 years old when he ran for Place 5 of CCA. The Houston Chronicle described him as having a "politically famous name" (referring to the Governor of Wisconsin, who is also named Scott Walker).
Elsa R. Alcala, also known as Elsa Spjut (born 1964), is a former Republican official who most recently served (2011–2018) as one of the nine judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was appointed to the Place 8 on the bench by then Governor Rick Perry , when Charles Holcomb stepped down to run in 2012 for the United States Senate .