Larry Weiman

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Larry Weiman

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Prior offices

Texas 80th District Court

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Elections and appointments

Last election

March 3, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

Boston University School of Management

Law

South Texas College of Law, 1991

Contact

Personal website

Larry Weiman was a judge of the Texas 80th District Court. He left office on December 31, 2020.

Weiman (Democratic Party) ran for re-election for judge of the Texas 80th District Court. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020.

Biography

Weiman received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his JD from South Texas College of Law. Weiman has worked in civil litigation law all over Texas since 1991.

Elections

2020

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

General election

General election for Texas 80th District Court

Jeralynn Manor defeated Sharon Hemphill in the general election for Texas 80th District Court on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jeralynn Manor (D)	53.5	837,317
		Sharon Hemphill (R)	46.5	728,527

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,565,844
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas 80th District Court

Jeralynn Manor defeated incumbent Larry Weiman in the Democratic primary for Texas 80th District Court on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jeralynn Manor	60.4	149,388
	Submit photo	Larry Weiman	39.6	97,826

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 247,214
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas 80th District Court

Sharon Hemphill advanced from the Republican primary for Texas 80th District Court on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Sharon Hemphill	100.0	154,977

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2016

See also: Texas local trial court judicial elections, 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. Incumbent Larry Weiman ran unopposed in the Texas 80th District Court Democratic primary.

Texas 80th District Court, Democratic Primary, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Larry Weiman Incumbent (unopposed)	100.00%	146,645
Total Votes		146,645
Source: Harris County, Texas, "Democratic Party Cumulative Report-Unofficial," accessed March 2, 2016

Incumbent Larry Weiman defeated Will Archer in the Texas 80th District Court general election.

Texas 80th District Court, General Election, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Larry Weiman Incumbent	52.99%	673,721
	Republican	Will Archer	47.01%	597,728
Total Votes				1,271,449
Source: Harris County, Texas, "Election Results," accessed December 9, 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.

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."

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;*
• 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.

*While no judge older than 74 may run for office, sitting judges who turn 75 are permitted to continue serving until their term expires.

Endorsements

Weiman's endorsements included the following organizations:

• The Houston Chronicle
• The Jewish Herald-Voice
• Pasadena Bar Association
• Association of Women Attorneys-Houston
• Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston

2012

Weiman ran re-election to the 80th District Court and defeated challenger Richard Risinger with 50.8 percent of the vote.

See also: Texas judicial elections, 2012

2008

Weiman ran for Texas' 80th District Civic Court Judge in 2008. Mr. Weiman, a Harris County attorney, ran for this position two years prior, garnering 48 percent of the vote, which was not enough to defeat three-term Republican judge Lynn Bradshaw-Hull.

Weiman faced Hull again in the November 2008 general election, where he won.

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2016

Weiman's campaign website listed the following themes:

“ Judge Larry Weiman kept his campaign promises to: provide oral hearings on any motions that any party wishes to be heard by the 80th District Court, to make rulings as promptly as possible and to streamline the weekly oral hearing docket. Before he was elected, hearings in the 80th were mostly scheduled on Fridays at 9:00 a.m. This was commonly referred to by local attorneys as a "cattle call." Judge Weiman changed this by staggering the docket so that the quick, shorter hearings go first and the longer hearings are scheduled throughout the day. This saves the attorneys' time and their client's money. Judge Weiman also accommodates attorneys and the public by also scheduling 8:30 a.m. hearings on weekdays before resuming the jury trials set for that day. Judge Weiman has also kept his promise to assist the overloaded Family Law Courts, when possible. In addition to volunteering his service on the uncontested divorce Night Court program, he has tried several contested divorce/child support cases. Judge Weiman regularly offers to try cases for the Family Law Courts when he has openings in his civil trial docket, as periodically occurs since he calls so many cases to trial, which encourages many of them to settle. Judge Weiman believes that the civil district court judges can help speed up the dockets of the Family Law Courts for citizens who need to get hearings and trials sooner then the current backlog allows. There is presently a much higher case load in the 9 Family Law Courts than that of the 25 civil district courts. If at least 18 of the 24 civil district court judges would also agree to partner with each of the 9 Family Court judges and their associate judges, then there would be at least two additional civil judges working with each Family Law Court, so that one of them would likely be available one day each week, plus be able to handle some of the trials, when their dockets permit. There are many Family Law attorneys and litigants who would like to have their routine motions and trials heard more quickly by an assisting civil district court judge rather than waiting a much longer period to appear before the presiding judge or associate judge, as is the present situation. Judge Larry Weiman is taking the lead in advocating reform of judicial campaign financing practices by refraining from soliciting or accepting cash contributions from attorneys/litigants with active cases pending in his court, although such practice is legal and common in Texas. While current judicial campaign finance laws do not make this practice illegal, Judge Weiman believes that judges should avoid the appearance of impropriety and/or injustice or even the possible perception that "Justice is for Sale.” Nobody should perceive an advantage or disadvantage based upon whether or not they give money to a presiding judge while they have a case before that judge. Judge Weiman is seeking to change that by example, in the 80th District Court. Even when he ran as the challenger candidate for judge he took this position by requesting that attorneys or parties who had cases pending before the 80th District Court not make cash contributions to his campaign while they were an attorney of record or party in this court, a position he maintains as the incumbent. Judge Weiman has successfully transitioned the document filings of the 80th from virtually all paper to digital filing through FreeFax filing or e-filing. This has saved the taxpayers of Harris County a tremendous amount of money in reducing work hours needed to manually image and/or store tens or hundreds of thousands of paper documents. Judge Weiman mandated that this be done only when the FreeFax filing became available so that attorneys and litigants without attorneys were not forced to incur an extra charge for the conversion to paperless filing. Judge Weiman also allows those who do not have the capability or the equipment to file through FreeFax or e-filing, to be excused from this requirement upon motion and ruling by the Court, pertaining to such circumstances. Judge Weiman works hard to ensure justice for all who appear in the 80th District Court and to honor the service and sacrifices of all the brave and courageous men and women currently in the United States Armed Forces as well as our veterans, law enforcement officers and fire-fighters. ” —Larry Weiman (2016)

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Footnotes

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