District Judge, 282nd Judicial District: who gets your vote?
What this role does
District judges preside over Texas’s trial courts of general jurisdiction, including felony criminal cases, divorce, land-title and civil matters. In large counties like Dallas, individual district courts may specialize in civil, criminal, juvenile or family matters.
Their rulings affect trials and the people involved in them.
- Felony criminal cases
- Civil and family cases
- Courts may specialize
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Alison Grinter Allen
Running for District Judge, 282nd Judicial District · Texas
StateDem
No challenger is on file for this seat.
Job fit
Alison Grinter Allen
- Her campaign biography describes her as board certified, with twenty years practicing criminal law in Dallas County. 1
- Her campaign biography says she has handled over ten thousand Dallas County criminal cases, ranging from misdemeanors to capital felonies. 1
- Her campaign biography says she was a Dallas County public defender and served over two years in its Mental Health division, working with community mental health providers. 1
No one else on file in this race.
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Sources
- Alison Grinter Allen for Judge · checked 2026-10-31 used in: Experience