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For twelve years Benoist-Templeton has been the prosecutor in Caldwell County who takes on crimes against women and children. She wants to be the judge who hears those cases.
She grew up in Galveston County — her mother taught special ed, her father was a deputy sheriff — and came to Texas State for a criminal-justice degree before law school at Oklahoma City University. She sits on the board of the Scheib Center for mental-health services, has been a League of Women Voters director, and coaches youth softball. Her two priorities for the bench: grow the drug court, and clear the civil backlog.
