Harris County
Judge, County Civil Court at Law No. 3
Lashawn A. Williams
Democratic Incumbent- On ballot as
- LASHAWN A. WILLIAMS
- Current role
- Judge, Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 3 (since 2019)
- Background
- Graduate, Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University (May 1995)
- Law license, Texas and Tennessee
- Born in Conroe, Texas
- Daughter of an Army Vietnam veteran
- Experience
- Re-elected November 8, 2022, over Aaron Adams, 51.1% to 48.9%
- Win over incumbent Linda Storey (November 2018)
- Founder and former managing partner, Baldwin Williams & Associates, PLLC
- Former in-house counsel, national Fortune 500 company
- Former criminal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney
- 23 years of legal experience before taking the bench (per campaign)
- Top priorities
- Says litigants "must be assured that their case will be heard by a neutral, impartial, fair-minded judge"
- "to interpret, honor and uphold the letter and spirit of the law"
- Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: Campaign site: says her experience lets her "respect wholly each party before me, and to interpret, honor and uphold the letter and spirit of the law"
- Court administration: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation
- Bay Area Democratic Movement
- Houston Association of Women Attorneys
- Houston Chronicle Editorial Board (primary)
- Campaign website
- lawforjudge.com
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