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Houston Bar Association Releases Results of 2024 Judicial Preference Poll

(HOUSTON – October 14, 2024) The Houston Bar Association released the results of its 2024 Judicial Preference Poll, featuring 37 contested judicial and administrative races in Harris County.             

              The HBA conducts the Preference Poll during election years, asking members to indicate their preferred candidates. This year’s poll includes Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian Party candidates in races for the Supreme Court of Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Houston Courts of Appeals, Harris County Civil District Courts, Harris County Criminal District Courts, Harris County Family District Courts, Harris County Criminal Courts at Law, Harris County Probate Courts, Justice of the Peace Courts, Harris County District Attorney, and Harris County Attorney.

The poll was conducted through online voting, with 1,134 ballots cast, representing a return rate of 14.5% of eligible HBA voters.

The results are posted on the HBA website, hba.org/polls. The Judicial Preference Poll is not a Houston Bar Association opinion or endorsement.*

The Houston Bar Association has conducted judicial polls since the early 1970s. Learn more from our FAQs page here.

* The Judicial Preference Poll is not an endorsement by the Houston Bar Association and any use of the information contained in this poll, including publication or advertising, must reflect that the poll is not an endorsement by the Houston Bar Association.

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The Houston Bar Association is a nonprofit professional organization for attorneys that provides education and service programs for the legal profession and the community. With over 11,000 members, the HBA is one of the largest metropolitan bar associations in the nation.