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Kimya Holmes
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2021 - Present
2026
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Kimya Holmes (Democratic Party) is a judge for Section D of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in Louisiana. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. Her current term ends on December 31, 2026.
Holmes (Democratic Party) won election for the Section D judge of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in Louisiana outright in the primary on November 3, 2020, after the general election was canceled.
Elections
2020
See also: City elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2020)
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Section D
Kimya Holmes won election outright against Graham Bosworth in the primary for Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Section D on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Kimya Holmes (D) | 60.7 | 91,733 | |
| Graham Bosworth (D) | 39.3 | 59,422 | ||
| Total votes: 151,155 | |||
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2012
Holmes ran for a seat on the Criminal District Court in Orleans Parish but withdrew before the election on November 6, 2012. [1]
- See also: Louisiana judicial elections, 2012
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kimya Holmes did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Education
Holmes received her undergraduate degree from the University of New Orleans and her J.D. from the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge.[2]
Career
Holmes is an attorney for the Capital Defender Project of Southern Louisiana.[2]
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Reference
Federal courts:
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Louisiana, Middle District of Louisiana, Western District of Louisiana • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Louisiana, Middle District of Louisiana, Western District of Louisiana
State courts:
Louisiana Supreme Court • Louisiana Courts of Appeal • Louisiana District Courts • Louisiana City Courts • Louisiana Family Courts • Louisiana Justice of the Peace Courts • Louisiana Juvenile Courts • Louisiana Mayor’s Courts • Louisiana Municipal Courts • Louisiana Parish Courts • Louisiana Traffic Courts
State resources:
Courts in Louisiana • Louisiana judicial elections • Judicial selection in Louisiana
