| Action |
Date Issued |
Summary |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of an Associate Judge |
1/2/2025 |
The judge failed to treat litigants and attorneys with patience, dignity, and courtesy, exhibited conduct in the performance of the judge's judicial duties that could be construed as bias, and denied a litigant's attorney the right to be heard in accordance with law. [Violation of Canons 3B(4), 3B(5), 3B(6) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge |
2/26/2025 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law when the judge failed to obtain the mandatory judicial education hours for the 2023-2024 Academic Year. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Admonition of a District Court Judge |
4/11/2025 |
The judge initiated improper ex parte communications with the District Attorney concerning two separate cases that were pending in the judge’s court. [Violations of Canon 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a County Judge |
4/11/2025 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and failed maintain professional competence in the law when the judge sua sponte appointed a litigant the guardian of the person without the litigant having filed an application for guardianship nor having served the citation regarding an application to the opposing side, and engaging in ex parte communications with the litigant outside the present of counsel and the ad litem attorney regarding the merits of the case. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2), and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge |
4/11/2025 |
The judge failed to be patient, dignified and courteous toward a litigant when the judge commented on the litigant’s mental heal and medication in open court during a hearing. [Violations of Canon 3B(4) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Admonition of a County Judge |
5/2/2025 |
The judge lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of a political candidate in the 2024 election and endorsed the candidate for public office. [Violations of Canons 2B and 5(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
| Private Reprimand of a District Court Judge |
8/14/2025 |
The judge initiated improper ex parte communications, made public comments about a pending proceeding that would suggest to a reasonable person the judge’s probable decision on a particular case and engaged in extra-judicial activities in such a way that case reasonable doubt on the judge’s capacity to act impartially when the judge made comments on the respondent’s social media post. [Violation of Canons 3B(8), 3B(10) and 4A(1) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] |
