Cameron County
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Gilbert Garcia, Jr.RepublicanJessica Alvarado GonzalesDemocratic
On ballot as
Gilbert Garcia, Jr.
Jessica Alvarado Gonzales
Current role
Texas peace officer (per 2026 candidate filing)
Municipal judge, City of Rio Hondo (per San Benito News reports, 2025 and 2026)
Background
Not found
- San Benito High School graduate (1992)
- Criminal justice studies, Texas Southmost College
- Training, Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Police Academy
- City of San Benito's Heart of Service Award (2026)
- Lifelong San Benito resident
Experience
Not found
- Associate and presiding municipal judge, City of Rio Hondo, 15 years (per San Benito News)
- Rio Hondo ISD school board member, eight years
- Chair, San Benito Housing Authority Board (per July 2025 San Benito News report)
- Earlier run for office; not elected (per the same 2025 report)
Top priorities
Not found
- "I pledge to serve as a full-time judge for the court and do the job to the best of my ability"
- "I have and will continue to make myself available to the citizens of Precinct 3."
Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: No public statement found
- Court administration: No public statement found
- Judicial philosophy: At her July 2025 campaign launch she said being a municipal judge showed her "the hardships that are added when facing fines, penalties, and orders from a court"
- Court administration: At her July 2025 campaign launch: "I pledge to serve as a full-time judge for the court and do the job to the best of my ability"
Endorsements
None found in our research
None found in our research
Campaign website
Not found
Not found
Gilbert Garcia, Jr.
Republican- On ballot as
- Gilbert Garcia, Jr.
- Current role
- Texas peace officer (per 2026 candidate filing)
- Background
- Not found
- Experience
- Not found
- Top priorities
- Not found
- Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: No public statement found
- Court administration: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- None found in our research
- Campaign website
- Not found
Jessica Alvarado Gonzales
Democratic- On ballot as
- Jessica Alvarado Gonzales
- Current role
- Municipal judge, City of Rio Hondo (per San Benito News reports, 2025 and 2026)
- Background
- San Benito High School graduate (1992)
- Criminal justice studies, Texas Southmost College
- Training, Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Police Academy
- City of San Benito's Heart of Service Award (2026)
- Lifelong San Benito resident
- Experience
- Associate and presiding municipal judge, City of Rio Hondo, 15 years (per San Benito News)
- Rio Hondo ISD school board member, eight years
- Chair, San Benito Housing Authority Board (per July 2025 San Benito News report)
- Earlier run for office; not elected (per the same 2025 report)
- Top priorities
- "I pledge to serve as a full-time judge for the court and do the job to the best of my ability"
- "I have and will continue to make myself available to the citizens of Precinct 3."
- Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: At her July 2025 campaign launch she said being a municipal judge showed her "the hardships that are added when facing fines, penalties, and orders from a court"
- Court administration: At her July 2025 campaign launch: "I pledge to serve as a full-time judge for the court and do the job to the best of my ability"
- Endorsements
- None found in our research
- Campaign website
- Not found
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