Jessica Lewis (Texas)

Jessica Voyce Lewis

Republican Party

Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2

Tenure

2025 - Present

Term ends

2030

Years in position

0

Predecessor

Robbie Partida-Kipness

Elections and appointments

Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

Law

Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law

Personal

Religion

Christian

Contact

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Jessica Voyce Lewis (Republican Party) is a judge for Place 2 of the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals. She assumed office on January 1, 2025. Her current term ends on December 31, 2030.

Voyce Lewis (Republican Party) ran for election for the Place 2 judge of the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Lewis practices business and bankruptcy law as an attorney at Ross & Smith, PC in Dallas, Texas, where she has worked since 2016. She began her legal career at Baker Botts, LLP and later worked for a Dallas-based nonprofit organization focusing on civil litigation and probation cases. Lewis received her B.S. in business administration from East Texas Baptist University in 2004 and her J.D. from Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law in 2010. She was admitted to the Texas State Bar in 2010 and is a member of the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers.

Elections

2024

See also: Texas intermediate appellate court elections, 2024

General election

General election for Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2

Jessica Voyce Lewis defeated incumbent Robbie Partida-Kipness in the general election for Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jessica Voyce Lewis (R)	51.4	781,250
	Submit photo	Robbie Partida-Kipness (D)	48.6	739,035

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,520,285
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2

Incumbent Robbie Partida-Kipness advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2 on March 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Robbie Partida-Kipness	100.0	140,216

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 140,216
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2

Jessica Voyce Lewis advanced from the Republican primary for Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2 on March 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jessica Voyce Lewis	100.0	187,865

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 187,865
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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Voyce Lewis in this election.

2022

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

General election

General election for Dallas County Court at Law No. 4

Dianne Jones defeated Jessica Voyce Lewis in the general election for Dallas County Court at Law No. 4 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Dianne Jones (D)	61.8	379,215
		Jessica Voyce Lewis (R)	38.2	234,826

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 614,041
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Dallas County Court at Law No. 4

Dianne Jones defeated incumbent Paula Rosales in the Democratic primary for Dallas County Court at Law No. 4 on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Dianne Jones	51.8	60,274
	Submit photo	Paula Rosales	48.2	56,044

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 116,318
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Dallas County Court at Law No. 4

Jessica Voyce Lewis advanced from the Republican primary for Dallas County Court at Law No. 4 on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jessica Voyce Lewis	100.0	67,884

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 67,884
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2020

See also: Municipal elections in Dallas County, Texas (2020)

General election

General election for Texas 14th District Court

Incumbent Eric Vaughn Moyé defeated Jessica Voyce Lewis in the general election for Texas 14th District Court on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Eric Vaughn Moyé (D)	62.5	561,441
		Jessica Voyce Lewis (R)	37.5	337,536

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 898,977
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas 14th District Court

Incumbent Eric Vaughn Moyé advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas 14th District Court on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Eric Vaughn Moyé	100.0	195,030

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 195,030 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas 14th District Court

Jessica Voyce Lewis advanced from the Republican primary for Texas 14th District Court on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jessica Voyce Lewis	100.0	72,922

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 72,922 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Campaign themes

2024

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2022

Jessica Voyce Lewis did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Jessica Voyce Lewis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Voyce Lewis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am an attorney, wife, mother, Christ-follower, and a regular volunteer and advocate in the Dallas community. My focus recently turned to public service when I declared candidacy for the 14th Judicial District Court of Texas, a civil district court serving Dallas County. After earning my law degree at SMU, I began my career at Baker Botts, L.L.P., where I worked on complex bankruptcy and litigation matters for a range of clients in various businesses and industries. Throughout this time, I continued serving through volunteer opportunities such as local legal clinics and other pro bono representations, as well as through non-legal church and community outreach programs. After years of volunteering with non-profit Act (Advocates for Community Transformation), I transitioned to working there full time as an attorney representing residents of high-crime neighborhoods in their efforts to better their communities through civil litigation and probate-related matters focused on reducing the criminal activity taking place on their streets. I've spent my most recent years back in private practice at the firm Ross & Smith, PC, where I have strengthened my legal expertise in representing small and mid-sized businesses both in and outside of the DFW area.

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?

• Faith in Our Courts - We as a community need to be able to trust that our cases will be heard by impartial, justice-focused, ethical judges, who will not be swayed by power, prestige, or prejudice. Your background, sphere of influence, or resources should not determine whether you will win or lose a case in our Dallas County courts.
• Faith of Our Judges - Worldview matters. Everyone, including judges, has a belief system, and belief systems impact our actions. Only judges with a worldview rooted in truth, justice, and equality before the law will faithfully uphold those principles and our U.S. and Texas constitutions in the courtroom.
• Judges for Our Communities - I am the best choice for the 14th Judicial District Court because I am a qualified and experienced lawyer with a worldview that calls me to pursue truth, justice, and reconciliation for all people in Dallas County and with a history of doing so in service of our Dallas communities.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I would like to see our courthouses more accessible to all people regardless of their resources, with each case heard by a just, impartial, and constitutionally minded judge. While I believe strongly in reconciliation and that we should seek to have peace with our neighbors, we all know that sometimes one or both parties is not willing to work with the other to that end. Often for average individuals and small businesses, in-court resolution is also not accessible because of the cost involved. As a society, we need courts where those of all resource levels can go for resolution of their disputes without leveraging their livelihood. Justice cannot prevail where monetary resources play such a huge part in our court system. With this in mind, if elected I would seek to create a courtroom environment where no more or less weight is given to someone's words just based on the person's connections, resources, or influence outside the courtroom. Off the bench, I would seek to enhance community education on the court system, processes, and related rights and to promote ways to facilitate more equal access to that system and the justice it should provide.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

I often think of the examples set by Corrie and Betsie ten Boom. They and their family were willing to do what was right at a risk to their own safety and livelihood, as their society-a very "civilized" and educated society at the time-descended into what we now recognize as inhumane evil. I pray that I would have the courage to stand up for others they way they did and maintain the faith that they did in the process. As I look at my young daughters, I hope that they never have to go through such an experience. But I hope to raise them in a manner that if they were called to do so, they would also follow the amazing example set by the ten Boom sisters..

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

I recommend the book "If You Can Keep It" by Eric Metaxas for an interesting and accessible consideration of aspects of our country's founding and the interconnected nature of faith, virtue, and freedom in sustaining and better fulfilling the ideals espoused at that founding. Due to failures in that dedication to faith, virtue, and freedom, we've fallen short of those ideals, such as in our failures of permitting slavery and fostering prejudice, but the structures in place at our founding have permitted us to overcome many flaws over time. The books asks us to consider what happens when we as a society lack any one of these interdependent pillars in the foundation of our way of life.

What legacy would you like to leave?

One of faithfulness, good stewardship of the gifts I have been given, and self-sacrifice. All in love.

Why are you running for this particular court seat?

I am on mission to help restore faith in our Dallas County court system. No one should have to walk into the courtroom with the concern that the scales of justice are tilted. Your background, political affiliations, sphere of influence, or resources should not have an impact on whether you will win or lose a case in our courts. Personally, as follower of Christ, I believe that I am called to pursue justice and truth and to care for those in my community. I believe this should be accomplished not just by serving through churches and non-profits but by being willing to serve through public service, protecting and positively influencing the structures of our society for the benefit of our families and communities. Having seen in 2018 that so few judicial races were contested in Dallas County and seeing evidence of political influence over our Dallas County judicial system, I set out to encourage my colleagues to put their faith into action by serving in this way and, ultimately, I decided to answer the call myself.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for a judge to have previous experience in government or politics?

Sometimes. We need public servants who are connected to the communities that they serve. Some familiarity with government systems and politics from within may be helpful, certainly. But becoming so entrenched in those systems that you forget the reason that they exist-to serve the individuals and businesses that may turn to your court for assistance in resolving their disputes-becomes an impediment to the efficient and effective administration of justice. Experience as judge specifically (versus just in government or politics generally) is helpful in serving in that role, and many judges serve for many years building a reputation, legal philosophy, and background to be proud of. But experience alone does not a good judge make, as it can also breed complacency, a God-complex, or corruption. The result all depends on the character and worldview of the person in the role.

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Preceded by Robbie Partida-Kipness (D)	Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Place 2 2025-Present	Succeeded by -

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