Justice Linda Yanez has served since 1993 on 13th Court of Appeals, most recently as its senior justice. The court is one of Texas’ intermediate state courts hearing appeals in a district that includes Victoria and stretches down to the Rio Grande Valley. She’s now running in the Democratic primary for the Texas Supreme Court, Place 8.
Yanez received her law degree from Texas Southern University’s law school and subsequently earned a master of laws degree from the University of Virginia Law School. Prior to her appointment by then-Gov. Ann Richards to the 13th Court, she was in private practice.
She has the judicial experience with a proven appellate record and the temperament to serve on the state supreme court. We recommend Justice Yanez.
From the Victoria Advocate: Houston should be the judge in Place 7 --
Sam Houston is one of the Democratic candidates for Justice, Supreme Court, Place 7.
Houston graduated from Baylor Law School in 1987 after receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in 1984.
Houston has practiced civil law for 20 years in Houston, having tried many cases ranging from personal injury to complex commercial cases. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has been rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell. An AV rating means Houston’s professional ability is very high (as well as his ethics). It is the highest rating that Martindale-Hubbell awards. Martindale-Hubbell has been rating attorneys based on peer reviews for more than a century.
Houston has never been a state judge, but neither has his opponent, Baltasar Cruz of Dallas County.
Texas Monthly magazine also labeled Houston a “Super Lawyer.”
We recommend Houston for the Place 7, Supreme Court judge position.
So far, both Sam Houston and Linda Yanez have received the endorsements of the following newspapers:
The Dallas Morning News,
The Houston Chronicle,
The San Antonio Express-News,
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times
The Longview News-Journal and
The Victoria Advocate
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