| Action |
Date Issued |
Summary |
| Private Warning & Order of Additional Education of a County Court at Law Judge (10/13/22) |
10/13/2022 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law when the judge displayed the defendant's sensitive personal information during a Zoom hearing that was livestreamed on the Court's YouTube channel. [Violations of Canon 2A and 3B(2).] Private Warning & Order of Additional Education of a County Court at Law Judge (10/13/22). |
| Private Admonition of a Justice of the Peace (10/15/22) |
10/15/2022 |
The judge failed to be patient, dignified and courteous with whom the judge deals in an official capacity by the judge's poor management and treatment of the judge's court employees. [Violation of Canon 3B(4) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] Private Admonition of a Justice of the Peace (10/15/22). |
| Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge (1/3/23) |
01/03/2023 |
The judge lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the interest of and authorizing the public use of the judge's name and judicial title to endorse a candidate in a special election by hosting a political event and making introductory remarks that a reasonable person, either in attendance at the event or watching a video of the judge's remarks on social media, would believe was the judge's public endorsement of the candidate. [Violation of Canons 2B and 5(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition & Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge. (1/3/23). |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a Probate Judge. (1/3/23) |
01/03/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain competence in the law and lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge and others when the judge appeared and voluntarily testified as a character witness on behalf of the judge's staff at the hearing on a motion to recuse the judge. [Violation of Canons 2A, 2B and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Order of Additional Education of a Probate Judge. (1/3/23). |
| Private Admonition of a District Judge (3/2/23) |
03/02/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law, when, after ejecting a criminal defense attorney, the judge compelled the attorney's client to proceed with the hearing in the absence of the attorney. The Commission further concluded that the judge failed to treat the attorney with patience, dignity and courtesy, performed judicial duties with bias against the attorney and his client, and failed to accord the attorney and his client the right to be heard according to law. [Violation of Canons 2A, 3B(2), 3B(4), 3B(5), 3B(6), and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition of a District Judge (3/2/23). |
| Private Warning of a District Judge (3/2/23) |
03/02/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with law and maintain professional competence in the law by ignoring and failing to enforce mandates from an appellate court. [Violations of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning of a District Judge (3/2/23). |
| Private Reprimand of a Justice of the Peace (3/2/23) |
03/02/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with the law, maintain professional competence in the law and engaged in conduct that is clearly inconsistent with the proper performance of the judge's duties and cast public discredit upon the judiciary or the administration of justice by denying an appeal bond and failing to forward a case to the proper appellate court. [Violations of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] Private Reprimand of a Justice of the Peace (3/2/23). |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (3/2/23) |
03/02/2023 |
The judge failed to be patient, dignified and courteous towards a law enforcement officer by referring to the officer as a "dirty cop" and accusing the office of resoling a matter "illegally." The judge further cast reasonable doubt on the judge's capacity to act impartially as a judge by giving advice on a civil matter, that was not pending in the judge's court. [Violations of Canons 3B(4) and 4A of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] Private Reprimand & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (3/2/23) |
| Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (3/2/23) |
03/02/2023 |
The judge failed to obtain the mandatory judicial education hours for the 2021-2022 Academic Year. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (3/2/23). |
| Private Admonition of a County Court at Law Judge (5/12/23) |
05/12/2023 |
The judge denied an attorney the right to be heard on a pending motion and allowed court personnel to engage in improper ex parte communication with the attorney and provide advice as if the advice was authorized by the judge. [Violation of Canon 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition of a County Court at Law Judge (5/12/23). |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (5/12/23) |
05/12/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law when the judge denied a litigant's Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs without conducting a hearing or issuing a written order listing the reasons for such determination and denied a litigant the right to be heard regarding the denial. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2), and 3B(8).] Private Reprimand & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (5/12/23). |
| Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a County Court at Law Judge (5/12/23) |
05/12/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law when the judge failed to refer a Motion to Recuse to the presiding judge within the required three business days; failed to perform judicial duties without bias and prejudice and manifesting bias and prejudice through the judge's words and conduct toward the plaintiff while presiding over a guardianship case; denied the parties the right to be heard regarding the judge's improper ex parte communications with an attorney concerning a trust agreement; engaged in ex parte communications and allowed court personnel to engage in ex parte communications with one of the attorneys in the case. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2), 3B(5), 3B(6) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning & Order of Additional Education of a County Court at Law Judge (5/12/23). |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (5/12/23) |
05/12/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law, failed to perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice and failed to accord the plaintiff the right to be heard when the judge vacated a judgment, dismissed an eviction case and a perfected appeal based on extraneous information the judge received out of court and after the court's jurisdiction has expired. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2), 3B(5) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution.] Private Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (5/12/23). |
| Private Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge (6/21/23) |
06/21/2023 |
The judge failed to comply with the law when a member of the public was denied copies of court records, pursuant to a proper request, by a court clerk under the supervision of the judge. [Violation of Canon 2A of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge (6/21/23). |
| Private Reprimand and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (6/21/23) |
06/21/2023 |
The judge engaged in willful and persistent conduct that cast public discredit upon the judiciary and the administration of justice when the judge made public statements that appeared to denigrate and demean the office to which the judge serves and lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the judge's own private interests by allowing the display/distribution of the judge's campaign materials outside the judge's office. [Violation of Canon 2B and Article V, Section 1-a(6)A of the Texas Constitution] Private Reprimand & Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (6/21/23). |
| Private Warning of a County Court at Law Judge (6/21/23) |
06/21/2023 |
The judge failed to be patient, dignified and courteous toward a court reporter regarding the court reporter's resignation from employment in the judge's court. [Violation of Canon 3B(4) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct] Private Warning of a County Court at Law Judge (6/21/23). |
