Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a County Court at Law Judge (1/12/22)

01/12/2022

The judge initiated an improper ex parte communication with a litigant and conducted her extra-judicial activities in a manner that cast reasonable doubt on her capacity to act impartially as a judge and that interfered with the proper performance of her judicial duties, when she offered the litigant a ride home after a hearing and discussed the pending case with the litigant. [Violations of Canons 3B(8), 4A(1) and 4A(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a County Court at Law Judge. (1/12/22).