There are nine Justices on the Texas Supreme Court, and unlike the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices serve for life, we elect ours every six years. It's crucial that we elect Justices who will serve the citizens of our state, because the most important cases often come down to one Justice's deciding vote — whether a hospital can be sued, whether an insurance company is liable, who gets custody of our children. One seat can flip the outcome, and you help decide who sits in it.
The Democratic candidate
Gisela Triana
DemocratAbout Gisela
Triana has been a judge at every level Texas has — city court, justice of the peace, county court, 14 years running a district court, and now the appeals bench — and when Texas lawyers were polled on this race, they picked her over the sitting Republican justice. A mother of five, she started out prosecuting domestic-violence cases.
The Texas-born daughter of Cuban refugees, she went to UT San Antonio and UT Law, co-founded a small criminal-and-family-law firm, and then spent 23 years on trial benches in Travis County, where she was known for clearing a backlog nobody else could. She trains other judges across the state on protective orders. Her opponent, Brett Busby, was put on the court by Abbott in 2019 before he'd ever won a statewide vote.
Also on the ballot
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Brett BusbyAbout Brett
He clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices — Byron White and John Paul Stevens — then built an appellate career in Houston before being appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in 2019.
Busby graduated from Duke and Columbia Law School before clerking at the highest level of the federal judiciary. He was a partner at Bracewell and a justice on the 14th Court of Appeals before his appointment. He's seeking his first full elected term.
Where to vote
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