Nueces County
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Chris DorseyRepublican
Celina LeonDemocraticOn ballot as
Chris Dorsey
Celina Leon
Current role
Head of Legal and Governmental Affairs, San Patricio County (per campaign)
Criminal defense attorney, Leon Law P.L.L.C., Corpus Christi (firm per State Bar profile)
Background
- Attended local public schools, including W.B. Ray High School (per campaign)
- Bachelor's degree, University of Texas at Austin (per campaign)
- Law degree, University of Houston (2002); with honors (per campaign)
- Texas law license (November 2002)
- Corpus Christi native (per campaign)
- Bachelor's and master's degrees, Texas Tech University (per her 2022 Ballotpedia survey)
- Law degree, University of Missouri School of Law (2009)
- Texas law license (November 2009)
- Whole legal career spent in Corpus Christi (per her 2022 Ballotpedia survey)
Experience
- Law practice with his father, nearly a decade; civil and criminal trials (per campaign)
- Served as an Assistant District Attorney for Nueces County; gang prosecutor (per campaign)
- Began in commercial litigation at the Houston firm Clements, O'Neil, Pierce, Wilson and Fulkerson (per campaign)
- Has been an adjunct professor at Del Mar College (per campaign)
- Democratic nominee, 117th District Court (2022); lost the general election to Susan Barclay
- Texas Bar Foundation Fellow (2021) (per her 2022 KRIS 6 News questionnaire)
- Past President, Corpus Christi Criminal Bar Association (per her 2022 KRIS 6 News questionnaire)
Top priorities
Not found
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Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: No public statement found
- Court administration: No public statement found
- Judicial philosophy: In a 2022 Ballotpedia survey, when she ran for a different court (the 117th District Court): "A judge must be fair, impartial, and have integrity."
- Court administration: No public statement found
Endorsements
None found in our research
None found in our research
Chris Dorsey
Republican- On ballot as
- Chris Dorsey
- Current role
- Head of Legal and Governmental Affairs, San Patricio County (per campaign)
- Background
- Attended local public schools, including W.B. Ray High School (per campaign)
- Bachelor's degree, University of Texas at Austin (per campaign)
- Law degree, University of Houston (2002); with honors (per campaign)
- Texas law license (November 2002)
- Corpus Christi native (per campaign)
- Experience
- Law practice with his father, nearly a decade; civil and criminal trials (per campaign)
- Served as an Assistant District Attorney for Nueces County; gang prosecutor (per campaign)
- Began in commercial litigation at the Houston firm Clements, O'Neil, Pierce, Wilson and Fulkerson (per campaign)
- Has been an adjunct professor at Del Mar College (per campaign)
- 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
- electchrisdorsey.com
Celina Leon
Democratic- On ballot as
- Celina Leon
- Current role
- Criminal defense attorney, Leon Law P.L.L.C., Corpus Christi (firm per State Bar profile)
- Background
- Bachelor's and master's degrees, Texas Tech University (per her 2022 Ballotpedia survey)
- Law degree, University of Missouri School of Law (2009)
- Texas law license (November 2009)
- Whole legal career spent in Corpus Christi (per her 2022 Ballotpedia survey)
- Experience
- Democratic nominee, 117th District Court (2022); lost the general election to Susan Barclay
- Texas Bar Foundation Fellow (2021) (per her 2022 KRIS 6 News questionnaire)
- Past President, Corpus Christi Criminal Bar Association (per her 2022 KRIS 6 News questionnaire)
- Top priorities
- Not found
- Tidbits
- Judicial philosophy: In a 2022 Ballotpedia survey, when she ran for a different court (the 117th District Court): "A judge must be fair, impartial, and have integrity."
- Court administration: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- None found in our research
- Campaign website
- Not found
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