State of Texas
Justice, 5th Court of Appeals District, Place 6
Ben Smith
Republican- On ballot as
- Ben Smith
- Current role
- Presiding Judge, 380th Judicial District Court, Collin County
- Background
- Bachelor's degree, Boston University
- Law degree, Boston University School of Law (2002) (per campaign)
- Texas resident since 2002 (per campaign)
- Experience
- Appointed to 380th District Court by Gov. Rick Perry, August 10, 2012 (per campaign)
- Re-elected 2016, 2020 and 2024 (per campaign)
- Local Administrative District Judge, Collin County (2018–2019) (per campaign)
- Assistant district attorney, Kaufman and Collin counties, eight years (per campaign)
- General law practice, McKinney, before the bench (per campaign)
- Top priorities
- Not found
- Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: Campaign site, captions to his video statements: "Courtrooms Should Be Neutral"; "Winners and losers in court – why judges should be predictable."
- Court administration: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- Pat Fallon, U.S. Congressman (listed by campaign)
- Keith Self, U.S. Congressman, former Collin County Judge (listed by campaign)
- Ken Paxton, Attorney General, State of Texas (listed by campaign)
- Dr. Dawn Buckingham, Texas Land Commissioner (listed by campaign)
- Erleigh Wiley, Kaufman County Criminal District Attorney (listed by campaign)
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- Kenda L. Culpepper, Rockwall County Criminal District Attorney (listed by campaign)
- Mitch Little, State Representative, District 65 (listed by campaign)
- Keresa Richardson, State Representative, District 61 (listed by campaign)
- Brent Money, State Representative, District 2 (listed by campaign)
- Shelley Luther, State Representative, District 62 (listed by campaign)
- Katrina Pierson, State Representative, District 33 (listed by campaign)
- Jeff Leach, State Representative, District 67 (listed by campaign)
- Angela Paxton, State Senator, District 8 (listed by campaign)
- Brent Hagenbuch, State Senator, District 30 (listed by campaign)
- Scott Sanford, former State Representative, District 70 (listed by campaign)
- Brian Loughmiller, former Mayor of McKinney (listed by campaign)
- Kelly Shackelford, CEO and Chief Counsel, First Liberty (listed by campaign)
- Byron Henry, Collin County Republican Party Chairman (listed by campaign)
- Brent Lawson, Grayson County Republican Party Chairman (listed by campaign)
- Matt Carpenter, Collin County Constable, Precinct 1 (listed by campaign)
- Steve Asher, Collin County Constable, Precinct 4 (listed by campaign)
- Cathie Adams, former Chairman, Republican Party of Texas (listed by campaign)
- Maggie Whitt, SREC, Senate District 8 (listed by campaign)
- John Myers, Precinct Chair, Precinct 64 (listed by campaign)
- BJ Bjorklund, Precinct Chair, Precinct 177 (listed by campaign)
- Suresh Kumar, Precinct Chair, Precinct 234 (listed by campaign)
- Robert Vines, Precinct Chair, Rockwall County 2B (listed by campaign)
- John Hubbard, Mayor of Fairview (listed by campaign)
- Dusty Kuykendall, Mayor of Lucas (listed by campaign)
- Texas Municipal Police Association (listed by campaign)
- Texas Right to Life (listed by campaign)
- Dallas Police Association (listed by campaign)
- McKinney Police Association (listed by campaign)
- Plano Police Association (listed by campaign)
- Prosper Police Association (listed by campaign)
- Wylie Police Association (listed by campaign)
- Godwin Bowman, P.C. (listed by campaign)
- Plunk Smith, PLLC (listed by campaign)
- Campaign website
- judgebensmith.com
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