District Judge, 283rd 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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Lela Lawrence Mays
Running for District Judge, 283rd Judicial District · Texas
StateDem
No challenger is on file for this seat.
Job fit
Lela Lawrence Mays
- Dallas County’s undated program listing names Mays and La'Donna Harlan as STAC judges and gives February 2007 as the program’s start, not their tenure dates. 1
- Mays began specialty-court work in DIVERT court in 2002 and established and presided over the Intensive Intervention Program Court from 2007–2009. 2
- Texas Metro News reported that Mays established STAC Court, providing judicial oversight and guidance for over 250 felony probationers in a post-adjudication drug-treatment court. 2
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Sources
- Programs, Services & Specialty Courts · checked 2026-10-31 used in: Experience
- Superb Women: Judge Lela Mays · checked 2026-10-31 used in: Experience