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Brian Walker (Texas)
2021 - Present
2026
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Brian Walker (Republican Party) is a judge for Place 7 of the Texas Second District Court of Appeals. He assumed office on January 1, 2021. His current term ends on December 31, 2026.
Walker (Republican Party) ran for election for the Place 4 judge of the Texas Supreme Court. He lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Walker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Walker was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree from Texas State University in 2000, a law degree from the University of Houston Law School in 2003, and a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma in 2018. His career experience includes working as an attorney. He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves from 2010 to 2019. He served as Judge Advocate and was the first JAG to serve as a flight commander/instructor at U.S. Air Force Officer Training School (OTS) at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.[1]
Walker has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- Federalist Society, member
- National Rifle Association
- Ducks Unlimited
- Texas Farm Bureau
Elections
2024
See also: Texas Supreme Court elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas Supreme Court Place 4
Incumbent John Devine defeated Christine Weems in the general election for Texas Supreme Court Place 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | John Devine (R) | 57.3 | 6,256,496 |
![]() | Christine Weems (D) | 42.7 | 4,656,560 |
Total votes: 10,913,056 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Matthew Sercely (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 4
Christine Weems advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 4 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Christine Weems | 100.0 | 825,485 |
Total votes: 825,485 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 4
Incumbent John Devine defeated Brian Walker in the Republican primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 4 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | John Devine | 50.4 | 921,556 |
![]() | Brian Walker ![]() | 49.6 | 905,418 |
Total votes: 1,826,974 | ||||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas Supreme Court Place 4
Matthew Sercely advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas Supreme Court Place 4 on April 14, 2024.
Candidate | ||
✔ | Matthew Sercely (L) |
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2020
See also: Texas intermediate appellate court elections, 2020
General election
General election for Texas Second District Court of Appeals Place 7
Brian Walker won election in the general election for Texas Second District Court of Appeals Place 7 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brian Walker (R) ![]() | 100.0 | 1,028,700 |
Total votes: 1,028,700 | ||||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Texas Second District Court of Appeals Place 7
Brian Walker defeated Elizabeth Beach in the Republican primary runoff for Texas Second District Court of Appeals Place 7 on July 14, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brian Walker ![]() | 64.1 | 48,622 |
Elizabeth Beach | 35.9 | 27,213 |
Total votes: 75,835 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Second District Court of Appeals Place 7
Brian Walker and Elizabeth Beach advanced to a runoff. They defeated John P. Chupp in the Republican primary for Texas Second District Court of Appeals Place 7 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brian Walker ![]() | 47.8 | 105,870 |
✔ | Elizabeth Beach | 36.1 | 80,027 | |
John P. Chupp | 16.1 | 35,620 |
Total votes: 221,517 | ||||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brian Walker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Walker's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- There are judicial activists on the right. I believe my opponent is one of those. Judicial activists are those that decide the outcome in the case based on the parties, personal desires, or political pressures and concerns, and then those judges massage and manipulate the law, in order to get to the result that they want. I believe that we need good judges who are committed to upholding the Constitution and the dictates of the people (as their will is manifested through the legislature). If elected, I will continue to do that, just as I have done during my time serving at the second highest level in our state's judiciary.
- Canon 3 of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct (the law that tells judges how they must conduct themselves) says that "judicial duties should take precedence over ALL other activities." I will work hard for the people. In 3 plus years, I've never missed a single oral argument. Yet, my opponent has missed 28 out of 50 oral arguments in the past five months alone. That is wholly unacceptable! He admitted to Bloomberg Law that he has been campaigning instead, and that he believes "campaigning" is a part of his "judicial duties" under the code. That is ridiculous. The language in Canon 3 is clear and unambiguous. There is certainly no way that the framers of that section intended for "campaigning" to fall under "judicial duties."
- Canon 2 of the code of judicial conduct dictates that "personal relationships" should never influence our judgment. Any time there is a conflict of interest, I will recuse myself. My opponent failed to disclose that he worked for a law firm that was the defendant in a matter that was appealed to his court. He didn't recuse himself but instead did what he could to help his old colleagues out. He essentially voted to keep his former colleague from being sued for several sexual molestations of a young boy and voted to protect his former law firm for being negligent in covering that alleged conduct up, while he was an employee of the law firm. In doing so, he appears to have violated at least three Texas ethics laws.
In addition to a strong work ethic, I believe that judges should bring integrity and ethics into their jobs in general. My opponent has been sanctioned by the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct. I never have.
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Campaign website
Walker’s campaign website stated the following:
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JUDICIAL ETHICS DICTATE THAT TEXAS JUDGES SHOULD NEVER "ALLOW FAMILY, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, FINANCIAL, OR OTHER RELATIONSHIPS TO INFLUENCE JUDICIAL CONDUCT OR JUDGMENT." JUDGE WALKER HAS ALWAYS RECUSED HIMSELF WHENEVER THERE HAS BEEN EVEN AN APPEARANCE OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN A CASE BEFORE HIM. NEVER MISSED A HEARING IN THREE PLUS YEARS ON THE BENCH NOT A CAREER POLITICIAN PREVIOUSLY HAS BEEN ON THE BALLOT FOR ONLY TWO ELECTED OFFICES INCLUDING HIS CURRENT POSITION ON THE COURT OF APPEALS NEVER BEEN SANCTIONED FOR JUDICIAL ETHICS VIOLATIONS NEVER USED GOVERNMENTAL RESOURCES FOR A POLITICAL PURPOSE SERVED NINE YEARS IN THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S CORPS OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RESERVES FIRST JAG IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO SERVE AS A DRILL INSTRUCTOR AT USAF OFFICER TRAINING SCHOOL 7TH GENERATION NATIVE TEXAN[2] |
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—Brian Walker’s campaign website (2024)[3] |
2020
Brian Walker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Walker's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- I will be faithful to the law.
- I will not legislate from the bench.
- I will allow my Christian values to help guide me in making the right decisions.
I would first focus on "turn around time" on authoring opinions. Once judges are assigned opinions, the amount of time they spend researching, analyzing, and ultimately writing them can be tracked. Although a rushed product can hurt the quality of an opinion, judicial efficiency is still an important part of good stewardship. Accordingly, I would always stay mindful of the "turn around time" on the opinions that I authored and compare the timing with other judges throughout the 14 courts of appeals in Texas.
Second, I would focus on "turn around time" for the various steps in doing the above. Each legal opinion has various steps in it's life-cycle. There are the research steps that go into an opinion, there are the analysis steps that take place throughout an opinion's life-cycle, and there are the various steps in authorship that take place in an opinion's life-cycle. The various points in the actual drafting of a legal opinion include the rough draft, the working copy that circulates among the judges, and the final product. I would create ways to track and compare the "turn around time" for all of those various steps in the authorship process.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Candidate Texas Supreme Court Place 4 |
Officeholder Texas Second District Court of Appeals Place 7 |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 20, 2020.
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Justice Brian Walker for Texas Supreme Court, “Compare the Candidates,” accessed February 7, 2024
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