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Jo Ann Delgado: [168] First Latino American female elected as a Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2, Place 1 of Harris County, Texas (2001) Pat Lykos: [169] First female District Attorney for Harris County, Texas (2009) Debra Ibarra Mayfield: [36] [170] [171] First Latino American female to serve as a county court judge in Harris County, Texas (2011)
Unlike the county judge, judges of the county courts of law are required to be attorneys. The county courts at law may hear both civil and criminal matters, or hear them separately, depending on how the Legislature has structured them (Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Harris, and Tarrant counties have "county criminal courts" or "county criminal courts ...
Chambers County Courthouse: Anahuac, Chambers County: 1936 built [120] 2008 NRHP [121] Designed in the Moderne style by Cornell G. Curtis. [120] Cherokee County Courthouse: Rusk, Cherokee County: 1941 built [122] 1961 RTHL [123] Designed in the Moderne style by Gill and Bennett. [122] Childress County Courthouse: Childress, Childress County ...
Chambers County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 46,571. [2] [3] The county seat is Anahuac. [4] Chambers County is one of the nine counties that comprise Greater Houston, the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area.
Most district courts consider both criminal and civil cases but, in counties with many courts, each may specialize in civil, criminal, juvenile, or family law matters. [ 2 ] The Texas tradition of one judge per district court is descended from what was the dominant form of American state trial court organization for much of the 19th century ...
Webb County was split in 1856. Encinal County was established on February 1, 1856, and was to have consisted of the eastern portion of Webb County. However, Encinal County was never organized and was finally dissolved on March 12, 1899, with its territory returned as part of Webb County.
Rick Spangler, Delaware County clerk and the county’s top election official, said the judge in Circuit Court 3, Douglas K. Mawhorr, recused himself from the matter as of Monday morning.
In 1854, Webb was appointed judge of the Texas Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Court, based in Corpus Christi, his new home. He was still serving when he died on November 1, 1856, en route to Goliad, Texas, for a court session. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Goliad. Webb County, Texas is named in his honor.