Fort Bend County
District Judge, 458th Judicial District
Maggie Jaramillo
Republican Incumbent- On ballot as
- MAGGIE JARAMILLO
- Current role
- Judge, 458th District Court (appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, December 20, 2024; in office since 2025)
- Background
- J.D., Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University (1997)
- Bachelor's degree, Northern Arizona University (per campaign)
- Associate degree, Arizona Western College (per campaign)
- Licensed to practice law in Texas since November 1997
- Emigrated from Mexico to the United States with her parents at age 9 (per campaign)
- Experience
- Successor to Chad Bridges, 458th District Court
- Associate Judge, 268th District Court (2023–2024) (per campaign)
- District attorney's intake division (2020–2022) (per campaign)
- Ran for 400th District Court (November 2020); lost the general election to Tameika Carter
- Judge, 400th District Court (October 2014–2020); appointed by Gov. Rick Perry, elected 2016
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- Solo private practice (1998–2014) (per campaign)
- Assistant county attorney, Starr County (1997) (per campaign)
- Republican primary (March 3, 2026): unopposed
- Top priorities
- Not found
- Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: In a 2020 Ballotpedia survey, as judge of the 400th District Court: "My job is to apply the law to the facts in the case fairly consistent with justice."
- Court administration: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- Fort Bend Business Coalition
- Houston Police Officers' Union
- Campaign website
- maggiejaramillo.com
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