Hon. Michelle Slaughter

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Michelle Slaughter


Republican Party



Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8
Tenure

2019 - Present


Term ends

2024


Years in position

5


Prior offices
Texas 405th District Court


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Compensation



Base salary

$184,800



Elections and appointments

Last elected

November 6, 2018




Education



Bachelor's

University of Houston




Law

University of Houston, 2004



Personal

Birthplace
Fort Worth, Texas


Religion
Christian


Profession
Attorney

Contact

Official website



Campaign website



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Michelle Slaughter (Republican Party) is a judge for Place 8 of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She assumed office on January 1, 2019. Her current term ends on December 31, 2024.Slaughter (Republican Party) ran for re-election for the Place 8 judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Slaughter became a member of the court through a partisan election. She was elected to the court in 2018 to succeed Elsa Alcala (R).[1] To read more about judicial selection in Texas, click here.
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[2] Slaughter received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[3] Click here to read more about this study.

Contents

1 Biography
2 Elections

2.1 2024

2.1.1 Campaign finance
2.1.2 Endorsements


2.2 2018
2.3 2016


3 Analysis

3.1 Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)


4 Campaign themes

4.1 2024
4.2 2016


5 Campaign finance summary
6 Noteworthy events

6.1 Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct admonishment over Facebook posts


7 State supreme court judicial selection in Texas

7.1 Qualifications
7.2 Presiding judge
7.3 Vacancies


8 See also
9 External links
10 Footnotes



Biography
Slaughter was born in Fort Worth, Texas.[4] She received a B.A. from the University of Houston.[5] In 2004, she graduated with a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center.[6] After law school, Slaughter worked as a private attorney. She founded her own law firm in 2010.[5]
In 2013, Slaughter was elected to the 405th State District Court in Galveston County, where she served until her election to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2018.[7]

Elections
2024
See also:Texas Supreme Court elections, 2024General electionThe candidate list in this election may not be complete.General election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8Chika Anyiam, Lee Finley, and Stephan Kinsella are running in the general election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 on November 5, 2024. CandidateChika Anyiam (D)
Lee Finley (R)Stephan Kinsella (L)

There are no incumbents in this race. = 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 Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8Chika Anyiam advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 on March 5, 2024. Candidate%Votes?Chika Anyiam
100.0
800,487
There were no incumbents in this race.SourceTotal votes: 800,487 = 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.Republican primary election Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8Lee Finley defeated incumbent Michelle Slaughter in the Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 on March 5, 2024. Candidate%Votes?Lee Finley
53.9
986,079Michelle Slaughter
46.1
843,842Incumbents are bolded and underlined.Source1Source2Total votes: 1,829,921 = 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.Libertarian convention Libertarian convention for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8Stephan Kinsella advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 on April 14, 2024. Candidate?Stephan Kinsella (L)

There were no incumbents in this race.Source = 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.
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2018
See also: Texas Supreme Court elections, 2018
General electionGeneral election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8Michelle Slaughter defeated Mark Ash in the general election for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 on November 6, 2018. Candidate%Votes?Michelle Slaughter (R)

74.7
4,760,576Mark Ash (L)

25.3
1,614,119
There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.SourceTotal votes: 6,374,695 = 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.Republican primary election Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8Michelle Slaughter defeated Jay Brandon and Dib Waldrip in the Republican primary for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 on March 6, 2018. Candidate%Votes?Michelle Slaughter
52.8
666,763Jay Brandon
30.7
387,751Dib Waldrip
16.4
207,209
There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Total votes: 1,261,723 = 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.
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.[8] Incumbent Michelle Slaughter defeated Ben Roeder and Philip Washington in the Texas 405th Distri