Jimmy Blacklock
2018 - Present
2024
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Jimmy Blacklock (Republican Party) is a judge for Place 2 of the Texas Supreme Court. He assumed office on January 2, 2018. His current term ends on December 31, 2024.
Blacklock (Republican Party) is running for re-election for the Place 2 judge of the Texas Supreme Court. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.
Governor Greg Abbott (R) appointed Blacklock to the Texas Supreme Court on January 2, 2018, to replace Justice Don Willett.[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] Blacklock received a confidence score of Strong Republican.[3] Click here to read more about this study.
Biography
Bildung
Blacklock received an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and a J.D. from Yale Law School.[1]
Career
- 2018 - Present: Justice, Texas Supreme Court
Prior to his appointment to the Texas Supreme Court, Blacklock served as general counsel to Gov. Greg Abbott. Before that, he served six years in the Texas Attorney General's office. He was also previously appointed to the Civil Rights Division within the United States Department of Justice by President George W. Bush (R). Following law school, he served as law clerk to Judge Jerry Smith on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas Supreme Court elections, 2024
General election
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General election for Texas Supreme Court Place 2
Incumbent Jimmy Blacklock and DaSean Jones are running in the general election for Texas Supreme Court Place 2 on November 5, 2024.
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2
DaSean Jones defeated Randy Sarosdy in the Democratic primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | DaSean Jones | 59.6 | 529,623 |
 | Randy Sarosdy | 40.4 | 359,402 | |
| Total votes: 889,025 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2
Incumbent Jimmy Blacklock advanced from the Republican primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jimmy Blacklock | 100.0 | 1,749,450 |
| Total votes: 1,749,450 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2018
- See also: Texas Supreme Court elections, 2018
General election
General election for Texas Supreme Court Place 2
Incumbent Jimmy Blacklock defeated Steven Kirkland in the general election for Texas Supreme Court Place 2 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jimmy Blacklock (R) | 53.2 | 4,358,756 |
 | Steven Kirkland (D) | 46.8 | 3,838,411 | |
| Total votes: 8,197,167 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2
Steven Kirkland advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2 on March 6, 2018.
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| ✔ | | Steven Kirkland |
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2
Incumbent Jimmy Blacklock advanced from the Republican primary for Texas Supreme Court Place 2 on March 6, 2018.
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Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
Last updated: June 15, 2020
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.
The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[4]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[5]
- Mild Republican
- Strong Republican
This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.
Jimmy
Blacklock
Texas
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Strong Republican - Judicial Selection Method:
Elected - Key Factors:
- Was a registered Republican as of 2020
- Held political office as a Republican
- Received donations from Republican-affiliated individuals or organizations
Partisan Profile
Details:
Blacklock ran as a Republican. He was general counsel to Gov. Greg Abbot (R). He was appointed by Gov. Abbot to fill a vacancy on the court in 2018. When he ran for retention election, Texans for Lawsuit Reform donated $21,967 to his campaign, and the Good Government Fund of Fort Worth donated $10,000 to his campaign, both of which donate more frequently to Republican candidates than Democratic candidates. The Texas Republican Party also donated $36,327 to his campaign for retention election.
Noteworthy cases
The section below lists noteworthy cases heard by this judge. To suggest cases we should cover here, email us.
State supreme court judicial selection in Texas
- See also: Judicial selection in Texas
The nine justices of the Texas Supreme Court are selected in statewide partisan elections. The elected justices serve six-year terms, after which they must run for re-election if they wish to remain on the court.[6]
Qualifications
To serve on the Supreme Court, a justice must be:
- a U.S. citizen;
- a resident of Texas;
- licensed to practice law in the state;
- between the ages of 35 and 75;[7][8] and
- a practicing lawyer and/or justice for at least 10 years.[6]
Chief justice
The chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court is selected by voters at large. He or she serves in that capacity for a full six-year term.[6]
Vacancies
In the event of a midterm vacancy, the governor appoints a replacement who must be confirmed by the Texas Senate. The appointee serves until the next general election, in which he or she may compete to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.[6]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The State of Texas Governor, "Governor Abbott Appoints Jimmy Blacklock To The Texas Supreme Court," January 2, 2018
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Texas," archived October 3, 2014
- ↑ While no justice older than 74 may run for office, sitting justices who turn 75 are permitted to remain on the court until their terms expire.
- ↑ Texas State Historical Association, "Judiciary," accessed September 12, 2014
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