Mike Herrera
Do you have a photo that could go here? Click here to submit it for this profile!
2025 - Present
2029
0
Mike Herrera is a judge for Number 5 of the El Paso Municipal Court in Texas. He assumed office on January 7, 2025. His current term ends on January 2, 2029.
Herrera ran for election for the Number 5 judge of the El Paso Municipal Court in Texas. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Herrera (Democratic Party) also ran for election for judge of the Texas 383rd District Court. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 5, 2024.
Elections
2024
District court
See also: Municipal elections in El Paso County, Texas (2024)
General election
General election for Texas 383rd District Court
Incumbent Lyda Ness-Garcia won election in the general election for Texas 383rd District Court on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lyda Ness-Garcia (D) | 100.0 | 153,180 |
| Total votes: 153,180 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas 383rd District Court
Incumbent Lyda Ness-Garcia defeated Mike Herrera in the Democratic primary for Texas 383rd District Court on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lyda Ness-Garcia | 58.5 | 19,302 |
| Mike Herrera | 41.5 | 13,717 | ||
| Total votes: 33,019 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Herrera in this election.
Municipal court
See also: City elections in El Paso, Texas (2024)
General election
General election for El Paso Municipal Court No. 5
Mike Herrera defeated incumbent Daniel Robledo in the general election for El Paso Municipal Court No. 5 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mike Herrera (Nonpartisan) | 56.1 | 86,037 | |
| Daniel Robledo (Nonpartisan) | 43.9 | 67,369 | ||
| Total votes: 153,406 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Herrera in this election.
2018
General election
General election for El Paso County Court at Law No. 5
Jesus Rodriguez won election in the general election for El Paso County Court at Law No. 5 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jesus Rodriguez (D) | 100.0 | 148,977 | |
| Total votes: 148,977 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for El Paso County Court at Law No. 5
Jesus Rodriguez defeated Kristin Romero in the Democratic primary runoff for El Paso County Court at Law No. 5 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jesus Rodriguez | 66.3 | 14,379 | |
| Kristin Romero | 33.7 | 7,307 | ||
| Total votes: 21,686 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for El Paso County Court at Law No. 5
Jesus Rodriguez and Kristin Romero advanced to a runoff. They defeated Mike Herrera and Danny Razo in the Democratic primary for El Paso County Court at Law No. 5 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jesus Rodriguez | 35.6 | 16,837 | |
| ✔ | Kristin Romero | 28.8 | 13,623 | |
| Mike Herrera | 26.4 | 12,468 | ||
 | Danny Razo | 9.2 | 4,334 | |
| Total votes: 47,262 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
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.[1]
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."[2]
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;*[3]
- 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.[1]
*While no judge older than 74 may run for office, sitting judges who turn 75 are permitted to continue serving until their term expires.[1]
2012
- See also: Texas judicial elections, 2012
Herrera was re-elected without opposition to the 383rd District Court in the general election.[4][5] Herrera had defeated fellow Democrat Lisa A. Hayes in the primary election.
Campaign themes
2024
District court
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mike Herrera did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Municipal court
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mike Herrera did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Noteworthy events
Reprimanded by the Commission on Judicial Conduct (2016)
In February 2016, the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a reprimand against Judge Mike Herrera because the judge had filed for divorce in 2012 and kept the case in his own court for four months. The reprimand said he "failed to comply with the law, demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law, and engaged in willful and persistent conduct that was clearly inconsistent with the proper performance of his judicial duties."[6] The commission's reprimand also ordered the judge to undergo six hours of additional training.
Herrera said that he didn't believe he had done anything wrong.
| “ | This was my personal divorce. The fact that it was in this court made no difference. It stayed there. I wasn’t actively doing anything. Me and my former spouse were working on everything. She and I were working on everything carefully.[7] | ” |
| —Judge Mike Herrera[6] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Texas 383rd District Court |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "2012 General Election Summary" Select "2012 General Election"
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedepcr - ↑ 6.0 6.1 El Paso Times, "El Paso judge disciplined for misconduct," March 23, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
Federal courts:
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas
State courts:
Texas Supreme Court • Texas Court of Appeals • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals • Texas District Courts • Texas County Courts • Texas County Courts at Law • Texas Statutory Probate Courts • Texas Justice of the Peace Courts
State resources:
Courts in Texas • Texas judicial elections • Judicial selection in Texas
