Andrea Beall

Andrea Beall

Democratic Party

Candidate, Texas 185th District Court

Texas 185th District Court

Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

3

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Elections and appointments

Last election

March 3, 2026

Next election

November 3, 2026

Education

Bachelor's

Baylor University, 2009

Law

South Texas College of Law Houston, 2014

Graduate

Eastern University, 2011

Andrea Beall (Democratic Party) is a judge of the Texas 185th District Court. She assumed office on January 1, 2023. Her current term ends on January 1, 2027.

Beall (Democratic Party) is running for re-election for judge of the Texas 185th District Court. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. She advanced from the Democratic primary on March 3, 2026.

Biography

Andrea Beall earned a bachelor's degree from Baylor University in 2009 and a graduate degree from Eastern University in 2011.

Elections

2026

See also: Municipal elections in Harris County, Texas (2026)

General election

The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.

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General election for Texas 185th District Court

Incumbent Andrea Beall (D) and Mark Goldberg (R) are running in the general election for Texas 185th District Court on November 3, 2026.

		Candidate
		Andrea Beall (D)
	Submit photo	Mark Goldberg (R)

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Democratic primary

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Democratic primary for Texas 185th District Court

Incumbent Andrea Beall (D) advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas 185th District Court on March 3, 2026.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andrea Beall	100.0	299,047

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Republican primary

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Republican primary for Texas 185th District Court

Mark Goldberg (R) advanced from the Republican primary for Texas 185th District Court on March 3, 2026.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Mark Goldberg	100.0	151,296

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	There were no incumbents in this race. Source	Total votes: 151,296
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2022

See also: Municipal elections in Harris County, Texas (2022)

General election

General election for Texas 185th District Court

Andrea Beall defeated Chris Carmona in the general election for Texas 185th District Court on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andrea Beall (D)	51.9	553,888
		Chris Carmona (R)	48.1	514,205

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,068,093
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Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for Texas 185th District Court

Andrea Beall defeated incumbent Jason Luong in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas 185th District Court on May 24, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andrea Beall	55.0	38,304
		Jason Luong	45.0	31,324

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 69,628
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas 185th District Court

Andrea Beall and incumbent Jason Luong advanced to a runoff. They defeated Kate Ferrell in the Democratic primary for Texas 185th District Court on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Andrea Beall	44.9	66,545
✔		Jason Luong	33.6	49,787
	Submit photo	Kate Ferrell	21.6	32,018

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 148,350
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas 185th District Court

Chris Carmona advanced from the Republican primary for Texas 185th District Court on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chris Carmona	100.0	140,735

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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2026

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Campaign website

Beall's campaign website stated the following:

Platform

Only through increasing access to justice and lowering the rate of recidivism can true reform take place in our Criminal Justice System. We must ensure that no individual falls through the cracks in Harris County.

Youthful Offenders Court

Andrea Beall has a passion for working with at-risk youth and is ready to create a Youthful Offenders Court for offenders between the ages of 17 and 25 in order to create a more individualized approach to rehabilitation. Andrea has seen the effects of having a close family member become lost in the criminal justice system. Andrea will work within the community to provide resources to prevent youthful offenders from falling into recidivism by addressing root problems such as a lack of education, job training, and social capital. Andrea has already begun enlisting community partners to create a Youthful Offenders Court so that if elected, she can begin work immediately to reduce recidivism and change young lives. If elected, Andrea will strive to stop the revolving door of the criminal justice system.

Creating Impact In Our Community

• Will create Youthful Offenders Court

• Will work tirelessly to end case backlog

• Will push for bail reform

• Qualified to bring fairness and justice for all

Access To Justice

Justice delayed is justice denied. In order to bring hope and reconciliation to our community, cases must be handled in an efficient and just manner, so that no member of our community falls through the cracks of the criminal justice system. When caseloads are not treated with hard work, efficiency, and diligence, the size of docket caseload grows. When caseloads grow, it takes longer for cases to reach their conclusion and for both the accused and crime victims to have their day in court. People who are accused of crimes and should be vindicated are denied their day in court, yet have increased exposure to law enforcement and have difficulty obtaining work while they languish on a court’s bond. Those who are accused of crime and need treatment are delayed in getting access to resources because the disposition of their case is delayed, increasing the risk of recidivism. Meanwhile, victims of serious crime cannot reach closure in the criminal justice system because the case continues on and acts as a constant reminder of their victimization.

THE PROBLEM? Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the 185th District Court docket grew from 918 cases to 1618 cases between December of 2018 and March of 2020. The number of pending cases has continued to skyrocket to over 2800 cases throughout the course of the pandemic. As of this writing in June of 2021, the 185th caseload is over 400 cases above the average Criminal District Court Docket caseload and is the third largest caseload of the 22 Criminal District Courts. Andrea believes the current trend is moving in the wrong direction. In order to decrease caseloads, Judges MUST commit to working hard and holding jury trials in order to hold attorneys for both sides accountable to their cases and decrease the backlog of cases. If elected, Andrea will work tirelessly to lower the docket size and increase the efficiency of the 185th District Court so that no member of our community is left behind.

Bail Reform

Andrea Beall is a proponent of bail reform and believes that no individual should ever be held in custody simply because of that individual’s economic status. Everyone is entitled to a fair and impartial justice system, regardless of being rich or poor. Andrea will work to provide services to those on bond who need addiction and mental health treatment. Andrea knows that bail reform and community safety are not mutually exclusive.

— Andrea Beall's campaign website (March 10, 2026)

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2022

Andrea Beall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Beall's responses.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a lifelong democrat running for the 185th District Court of Harris County, which is a felony court. I am the only person in the race who has experience handling the most violent and serious crimes in our penal code, providing me with the most relevant experience for a felony bench. I currently serve Harris County as a District Court Chief in Child Fatality, seeking justice for children who have been abused and murdered. I spent the last 4 years working as an Adjunct Law Professor for South Texas College of Law Houston and I work for the City of Houston as an Instructor at the Houston Police Academy, where I teach 4th Amendment to cadets and in-service police officers. I have a Master’s in Urban Development and a background in nonprofit work in Houston's Second and Third Wards, where I worked with at-risk youth and young adults. I am a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, which is an honor only given to 1/3 of 1% of attorneys due to their dedication to the administration of justice and high professional standing among peers. I serves on the Houston Bar Association’s HAY Center Committee, helping youth who have recently aged out of the foster system, and the Gender Fairness Committee. I am the only person in this race who is a member of the Harris County Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• If elected, I will increase access to justice in the 185th District Court. In the last 3 years, the Court has only been to trial 10 times, driving the case backlog from 918 cases to over 2600 cases. I will increase trials in order to ensure that those accused of crime and victims of crime will have their day in court in a timely manner.
• I will bring relevant experience to the 185th District Court. I am the only person in this race who has experience handling and trying capital murders. I’ve spent almost 3 years handling child murders and sexual abuse cases. I will bring this specialized knowledge to the bench.
• I care deeply about community safety. I will ensure that, while those accused of nonviolent crimes are not languishing in pretrial custody, community safety will be of the utmost importance when setting bail for violent offenders.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

In order to create true rehabilitation for young people in the felony probation system, I will create Youthful Offenders Court in the 185th. This specialty program will work with 17–25-year-olds in the adult probation system to provide a more individualized path to rehabilitation. Services in this program will include mental health and drug treatment, mentors, tutoring, job skills training, access to jobs, stable housing, and gang tattoo removal in order to provide a path out of the criminal justice system. This population of young people is the largest recidivist group in our criminal justice system. While other specialty courts such as Veterans Court, Sober Court, and Mental Health Court were created through Republican judges and will continue to exist regardless of who is on the bench, no specialty court program has ever been created in our felony court system to address our largest recidivist group: young adults. In order to create community buy-in and lower the cost of such a specialty court to the county, I have already begun meeting with nonprofits and local community leaders to gain commitments to Youthful Offenders Court. If elected to office, I will begin this specialty court program immediately, which is why I am putting the work in now. Only through creating real change through specialty programs such as Youthful Offenders Court can we offer life changing support and lower the recidivism rate in our community.

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