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Morris Overstreet (1975): [33] First African American male elected as a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (1991) Fortunato "Pete" Benavides: [34] First Latino American male to serve as Judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; Charles Spain: [35] First openly LGBT male to serve as an appellate court judge in Texas (2018)
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 ...
In one of the odd provisions of the Texas Government Code, there is no requirement that a municipal judge be an attorney if the municipal court is not a court of record (Chapter 29, Section 29.004), but the municipal judge must be a licensed attorney with at least two years experience in practicing Texas law if the municipal court is a court of ...
Courts of Texas include: State courts of Texas. Texas Supreme Court (Civil) [1] Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (Criminal) [2] Texas Courts of Appeals (14 districts) [3] Texas District Courts (420 districts) [4] Texas County Courts [5] Texas Justice Courts [6] Texas Municipal Courts [7] Federal courts located in Texas. United States District ...
The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state ...
To qualify to vote in Texas, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, a county resident where they submit the voter registration application and at least 18 years old on Election Day. Applicants may ...
The new jurisdiction, while not recognizing the medical qualification as such, may allow it to be used to give the right to take a short qualifying course leading to a recognized qualification, or may disregard it entirely. Diplomatic recognition is a similar concept whereby one state acknowledges the existence as an entity of another.
The trial and appellate business courts will be open for cases on September 1, 2024. [16] This new court is a separate statutory court, and not a division of the district court. Thus, it will remove some types of cases from the dockets of the district courts where the new business court is operational.