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Jeff Fletcher
Jeff Fletcher is a judge of the Texas 402nd District Court.
Fletcher (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 5. He lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Fletcher completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Fletcher's professional experience includes working as a private practice attorney.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 5
Incumbent Cole Hefner defeated Nancy Nichols in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 5 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Cole Hefner (R)  | 98.8 | 74,381 |
 | Nancy Nichols (Independent) (Write-in) | 1.2 | 910 | |
| Total votes: 75,291 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 5
Incumbent Cole Hefner defeated Jeff Fletcher and Dewey Collier in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 5 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cole Hefner | 69.8 | 20,040 |
 | Jeff Fletcher | 19.3 | 5,547 | |
 | Dewey Collier | 10.9 | 3,119 | |
| Total votes: 28,706 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Fletcher received the following endorsements.
- Attorney General Ken Paxton (R)
2016
Texas held general elections for local judicial offices on November 8, 2016. A primary election took place on March 1, 2016. A primary runoff election was held on May 24, 2016, for any seat where the top vote recipient did not receive a majority of the primary vote.[2] Jeff Fletcher defeated Brad McCampbell in the Texas 402nd District Court Republican primary.[3]
| Texas 402nd District Court, Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Jeff Fletcher |
56.95% | 5,046 |
| Brad McCampbell | 43.05% | 3,814 |
| Total Votes | 8,860 | |
| Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph, "Wood County election night returns," March 1, 2016 | ||
Selection method
- See also: Partisan election of judges
The judges of the Texas District Courts are chosen in partisan elections. They serve four-year terms, after which they must run for re-election if they wish to continue serving.[4]
Though Texas is home to more than 400 district courts, the courts are grouped into nine administrative judicial regions. Each region is overseen by a presiding judge who is appointed by the governor to a four-year term. According to the state courts website, the presiding judge may be a "regular elected or retired district judge, a former judge with at least 12 years of service as a district judge, or a retired appellate judge with judicial experience on a district court."[5]
Qualifications
To serve on the district courts, a judge must be:
- a U.S. citizen;
- a resident of Texas;
- licensed to practice law in the state;
- between the ages of 25 and 75;*[6]
- a practicing lawyer and/or state judge for at least four years; and
- a resident of his or her respective judicial district for at least two years.[4]
*While no judge older than 74 may run for office, sitting judges who turn 75 are permitted to continue serving until their term expires.[4]
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jeff Fletcher completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fletcher's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- The Texas Border MUST be secured
- Elections in Texas need to be protected
- Texas children must be protected from gender modification and pornography
Tom Castloo - Retired U.S. Border Patrol
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2016
Fletcher's campaign website listed the following themes for 2016:
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Jeff is a staunch conservative Christian who believes that: |
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| —Jeff Fletcher (2016), [8] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 10, 2024
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Important 2016 Election Dates," accessed December 18, 2015
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Official candidate list," accessed December 18, 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Texas," archived October 3, 2014
- ↑ Texas Courts Online, "Administrative Judicial Regions," accessed September 12, 2014
- ↑ Texas State Historical Association, "Judiciary," accessed September 12, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Facebook, "Jeff Fletcher for 402nd Judicial District Judge," accessed February 24, 2016
