| Action |
Date Issued |
Summary |
| Private Warning of an Appellate Justice (10/29/21) |
11/02/2021 |
The judge violated the prohibitions against testifying voluntarily as a character witness and lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of others in doing so, when she voluntarily provided affidavit testimony in a defamation lawsuit characterizing one of the plaintiffs as a "bully" and his behavior towards her as "bullying and extortion." [Violation of Canon 2B of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning of an Appellate Justice. (10/29/21). |
| Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (11/2/21) |
11/02/2021 |
The judge lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the privates interests of himself or others and authorized the public use of his name endorsing other candidates for public office by when he; (i) endorsed several candidates for local school board elections and other non-judicial candidates; (ii) appeared at several public events to promote the candidacies of several persons to a school district's board of trustees while adorned with campaign materials promoting their election; and (iii) affixed to the rear window of his vehicle large depictions of campaign materials promoting the election of candidates for the school district's board of trustees. [Violations of Canons 2B and 5(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (11/2/21). |
| Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (12/8/21) |
12/08/2021 |
The judge failed to comply with and maintain professional competence in the law, and failed to treat a Constable with the patience, dignity and courtesy required of a judge with respect to those with whom he deals in an official capacity, when he and/or his court staff failed to issue civil process for service by the Constable's office as requested by litigants. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2) and 3B(4) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (12/8/21). |
| Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (12/8/21) |
12/08/2021 |
The judge failed to comply with and maintain professional competence in the law, and failed to treat a Constable with the patience, dignity and courtesy required of a judge with respect to those with whom he deals in an official capacity, when he and/or his court staff failed to issue civil process for service by the Constable's office as requested by litigants. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2) and 3B(4) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (12/8/21). |
| Private Admonition of a Former Municipal Court Judge (12/8/21) |
12/08/2021 |
The judge failed to treat all defendants appearing before him with the patience, dignity and courtesy required of a judge with respect to those with whom he deals in an official capacity, when he made disrespectful and/or discourteous remarks to certain defendants that appeared in front of him in open court, including regarding those defendants' alleged inability to pay fines arising from their cases. [Violation of Canon 3B(4) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition of a Former Municipal Court Judge. (12/8/21). |
| Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (12/8/21) |
12/08/2021 |
The judge failed to comply with and maintain professional competence in the law, and engaged in willful conduct that was clearly inconsistent with the proper performance of his duties and cast public discredit upon the judiciary, when he improperly shredded a government record. [Violations of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] Private Warning & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (12/8/21). |
| Private Warning of a Former Municipal Court Judge (2/16/22) |
02/16/2022 |
The judge improperly utilized a bailiff to translate for a Spanish-speaking defendant in a traffic case and held the bailiff in contempt when the judge felt he was not translating properly, and failed to perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice when the judge made comments regarding the defendant's inability to speak English, and in so doing failed to treat both the bailiff and defendant with the patience, dignity and courtesy required of a judge for those with whom the judge deals in an official capacity. [Violations of Canons 2A, 2B, 3B(2), 3B(4), 3B(5), 3B(6) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning of a Former Municipal Court Judge. (2/16/22). |
| Private Admonition of a County Judge (2/24/22) |
02/24/2022 |
The judge sent a letter, on letterhead that identified the judge and the judge's office, to another judge presiding over a pending divorce proceeding providing a personal character reference for a party to that action. [Violation of Canon 2B of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition of a County Judge. (2/24/22). |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge (2/28/22) |
02/28/2022 |
The judge improperly failed to disqualify from presiding over a criminal case in which the State was seeking an adjudication of guilt and revocation of community supervision of the defendant, when the judge had served as the prosecutor that handled the defendant's original plea. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(1) and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge. (2/28/22). |
| Private Admonition of a District Court Judge (3/8/22) |
03/08/2022 |
The judge appeared in a social media video depicting the judge dancing in the judge's courtroom to a song containing explicit lyrics, as requested by a person who could use that person's social media account and the video including the judge for that person's own social media promotional purposes. [Violations of Canon 2B of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] Private Admonition of a District Court Judge. (3/8/22). |
| Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge (3/8/22) |
03/08/2022 |
The judge allowed the victim in three underlying cases that arose from the same criminal episode to make a victim allocution statement in one of those cases prior to passing sentence in the other two cases, and thereafter rejected the State's sentencing recommendation on the latter cases and imposed the sentence that had been requested by the victim in the allocution statement. In so doing, the judge failed to comply with the law and to maintain professional competence in the law, conveyed or permitted another to convey they were in a special position to influence the judge, and failed to perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice. [Violations of Canons 2A, 2B, 3B(2) and 3B(5) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition & Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge. (3/8/22). |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge (3/8/22) |
03/08/2022 |
The judge made a social media post promoting a conference in which the judge was participating and engaged in improper solicitation of funds for that event. [Violations of Canons 2B and 4C(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge. (3/8/22). |
| Private Admonition of a District Court Judge (4/7/22) |
04/07/2022 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law when the judge engaged in impermissible ex parte communications with a District Attorney's Office regarding an indigent defendant's ex parte motions for a mental health expert. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition of a District Court Judge. (4/7/22). |
| Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge (4/20/2022) |
04/20/2022 |
The judge failed to comply with the law; failed to maintain professional competence in the law; failed to accord parties and/or their counsel the right to be heard according to law, and engaged in improper ex parte communications by: (1) improperly inquiring into the nature of a litigant's nonsuit of a case; (2) failing to allow attorneys to make offers of proof when appropriate; (3) failing to allow attorneys to proffer objections during hearings when appropriate; and (4) excluding attorneys and litigants from hearings while continuing on with such hearings. Further, the judge failed to maintain proper decorum in the courtroom and failed to be patient, dignified and courteous to several attorneys and litigants appearing in the judge's courtroom, and failed to perform judicial duties without bias in favor of applicants for protective orders and/or prejudice against respondents to such requests for protective order and manifested through the judge's words and/or conduct such biases/prejudices. Finally, the judge lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of others, and cast reasonable doubt on the judge's capacity to act impartially as a judge, by recommending a particular attorney in a Facebook post and praising the work of particular lawyers appearing in the judge's court in a Facebook post. [Violations of Canons 2A, 2B, 3B(2), 3B(3), 3B(4), 3B(5), 3B(6), 3B(8) and 4A(1) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] Private Warning & Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge. (4/20/22). |
| Private Warning of a District Judge (6/22/22) |
06/22/2022 |
The judge distributed a political campaign advertisement containing the photograph of the child and the paternal grandparents while the judge was still presiding over the custody dispute involving the paternal grandparents and the mother of the child which conveyed the impression that the parties were in a special position to influence the judge. [Violation of Canon 2B of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning of a District Judge. (6/22/22). |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a District Judge (6/22/22) |
06/22/2022 |
The judge engaged in an ex parte communication with the Amicus Attorney outside the presence of the parties and/or their attorneys regarding the psychological evaluation of the parents and children and how to proceed thereto. [Violation of Canon 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Order of Additional Education of a District Judge. (6/22/22). |
| Private Warning of a Former Justice of the Peace (6/22/22) |
06/22/2022 |
The judge failed to comply the law and failed to comply with Section 114.044 of the Texas Local Government Code by failing to file all mandatory monthly collection reports to the County Commissioners Court for several years and failing to file the required information on the reports that were filed. [Violation of Canon 2A of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning of a Former Justice of the Peace. (6/22/22). |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge (7/18/22) |
07/18/2022 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law when the judge failed to provide a show cause hearing to a defendant prior to issuing a capias pro fine for the defendant's arrest, dismissed several cases without a motion to dismiss from the city prosecutor and changed citations to warnings without the officer's permission. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct] Private Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge. (7/18/22) |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of an Associate Judge |
07/18/2022 |
The judge failed to disqualify from presiding over a family law case in which the judge previously served as a lawyer. [Violation of Canons 2A, 3B(1) and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Reprimand & Order of Additional Education of an Associate Judge (7/18/22). |
| Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace |
08/10/2022 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law when the judge failed to provide the plaintiff notice of the trial date, failed to provide notice of eviction to the defendants and notice to the plaintiff of a hearing to rescind the final judgement in the eviction case. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a District Judge |
08/10/2022 |
The judge exhibited bias and failed to treat a defendant with patience, dignity and courtesy required of a judge with those with which the judge deals in an official capacity. [Violation of Canons 3B(4) and 3B(5) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a District Judge |
08/22/2022 |
The judge made callous and discriminatory comments on social media which cast reasonable doubt on the judge's capacity to act impartially as a judge. [Violation of Canon 4A(1) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] |
| Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a County Court at Law Judge |
08/29/2022 |
The judge failed to comply, maintain competence in the law and failed to accord the parties in a probate case the right to be heard when the judge granted a motion to close and distribute funds without providing a hearing or a memorandum of the judge's ruling. [Violation of Canons 2A, 3B(2) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
