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Michael Edward Keasler (born August 16, 1942), [1] was a judge of the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state court of last resort for criminal cases in Texas, from January 1999 to December 2020. Keasler received a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, followed by an LL.B. from the University of Texas School of Law. [2]
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).
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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In March 2018, she won the Republican primary to be a Judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. [3] Her opponent in the General Election was Libertarian Mark Ash. [ 5 ] She went on to win the general election, receiving 4,760,576 votes or 74% of the vote. [ 6 ]
In 2000, Keller was challenged in the Republican primary election for the presiding judge slot of the Court of Criminal Appeals by sitting Judge Tom Price of Dallas. Keller prevailed, 122,958 (54.8 percent) to Price's 101,514 votes (45.2 percent). Price continued serving on the court until his retirement in 2015. [4]