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Barbara Hervey
Barbara Hervey (Republican Party) was a judge for Place 7 of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She assumed office on January 1, 2001. She left office on December 31, 2024.
Hervey (Republican Party) ran for re-election for the Place 7 judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Hervey became a member of the court through a partisan election. She was first elected to the court in 2000.[1] To read more about judicial selection in Texas, click here.
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[2] Hervey received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[3] Click here to read more about this study.
Biography
Hervey received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1975 and a J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law in 1979. Before her election to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in November 2000, she was an assistant criminal district attorney in Bexar County for 16 years and worked as a private attorney for five years.[1]
As of July 2021, Hervey was a member of the Texas Bar Foundation and the American Law Institute, and she was an adjunct professor at St. Mary's University School of Law.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas Supreme Court elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7
Gina Parker defeated Nancy Mulder in the general election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Gina Parker (R)  | 58.3 | 6,340,949 |
 | Nancy Mulder (D) | 41.7 | 4,526,924 | |
| Total votes: 10,867,873 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mark Ash (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7
Nancy Mulder advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nancy Mulder | 100.0 | 819,154 |
| Total votes: 819,154 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7
Gina Parker defeated incumbent Barbara Hervey in the Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gina Parker | 66.1 | 1,210,956 |
 | Barbara Hervey | 33.9 | 621,660 | |
| Total votes: 1,832,616 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7
Mark Ash advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 on April 14, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ |  | Mark Ash (L) |
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Hervey in this election.
2018
- See also: Texas Supreme Court elections, 2018
General election
General election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7
Incumbent Barbara Hervey defeated Ramona Franklin in the general election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Hervey (R) | 54.2 | 4,429,113 |
 | Ramona Franklin (D) | 45.8 | 3,750,114 | |
| Total votes: 8,179,227 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7
Ramona Franklin advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Ramona Franklin |
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7
Incumbent Barbara Hervey advanced from the Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Hervey |
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2012
- See also: Texas judicial elections, 2012
Hervey defeated Mark Bennett in the general election on November 6, 2012, receiving 77.9% of the vote.[4]
2006
Hervey defeated Quanah Parker in the general election on November 7, 2006, receiving 75.9% of the vote.[5]
2000
Hervey defeated William R. Barr in the general election on November 7, 2000, receiving 56.9% of the vote.[6]
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Barbara Hervey did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
Last updated: June 15, 2020
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.
The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[7]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[8]
- Mild Republican
- Strong Republican
This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.
Barbara
Hervey
Texas
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Mild Republican - Judicial Selection Method:
Elected - Key Factors:
- Was a registered Republican
- Donated less than $2,000 to Republican candidates
- Endorsed by Republican-affiliated individuals or organizations
Partisan Profile
Details:
Hervey ran as a Republican for her seat on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She donated $1000 to Republican candidates. She received endorsements from Tea Party and Republican women's groups. She received $500 in donations from Austin Republican Women PAC Fund, $500 from Bexar County Republican Women PAC, and $300 from Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC.
Other Scores:
Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores (2012)
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Hervey received a campaign finance score of 1.13, indicating a conservative ideological leaning. This was more conservative than the average score of 0.91 that justices received in Texas.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[9]
Court of Criminal Appeals judicial selection in Texas
- See also: Judicial selection in Texas
The nine judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals are selected in statewide partisan elections. The elected justices and judges serve six-year terms, after which they must run for re-election if they wish to remain on the court.[10]
Qualifications
To serve on any of the appellate courts, a judge must be:
- a U.S. citizen;
- a resident of Texas;
- licensed to practice law in the state;
- between the ages of 35 and 75;*[11][12] and
- a practicing lawyer and/or judge for at least 10 years.[10]
Presiding judge
The presiding judge of the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals is selected by voters at large. He or she serves in that capacity for a full six-year term.[10]
Vacancies
In the event of a midterm vacancy, the governor appoints a replacement who must be confirmed by the Texas Senate. The appointee serves until the next general election, in which he or she may compete to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.[10]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Texas Judicial Branch: Court of Criminal Appeals, "Judge Barbara Hervey," accessed July 30, 2021
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ Office of the Secretary of State, "Race Summary Report: 2012 General Election" accessed July 30, 2021
- ↑ Office of the Secretary of State, "Race Summary Report: 2006 General Election" accessed July 30, 2021
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Race Summary Report: 2000 General Election," accessed July 30, 2021
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedTXgeneral - ↑ Texas State Historical Association, "Judiciary," accessed September 12, 2014
- ↑ While no judge older than 74 may run for office, sitting judges who turn 75 are permitted to remain on the court until their terms expire.
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 2001-2024 |
Succeeded by Gina Parker (R) |
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