Private Admonition of a County Probate Court Judge. (05/05/08)

05/05/2008

The judge favored his court investigator and his personal accountant with court appointments to a guardianship matter pending in his court. The judge continued to preside over the probate matter during his brief marriage to his court investigator, and signed an order approving an award of fees to his wife's attorney during this time. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(1), 3C(4) and 4D(1) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct and Article V, Section 1-a(6) of the Texas Constitution.] Private Admonition of a County Probate Court Judge. (05/05/08)