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Read the ballot carefully: this race is Kristen Hawkins against Kyle Hawkins. She's the Houston trial judge — the daughter of an immigrant mother, who worked her way through law school; he's the Abbott appointee who's been on the court since October and has never faced a voter. Texas lawyers, polled, picked her.
Hawkins grew up in Houston, went to Alief Hastings High, then UT and South Texas College of Law, and in 2016 became the first woman ever elected to the 11th District Court — the oldest court in Texas. She's board-certified in civil trial law and personal-injury law, has been handed two of the state's biggest multi-plaintiff cases to manage, and was named Jurist of the Year by Texas trial lawyers in 2021. She has never lost an election.
