2026 Texas General Election

Dimple attended the University of Texas at Austin and the UT School of Law.


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Dimple previously worked as a Staff Attorney at the Texas Advocacy Project.

2019 - Present:
Judge, County Court at Law 4

After two decades serving the community, she was appointed to the Court 4 bench in 2019 by the Travis County Commissioners when the Hon. Judge Mike Denton retired. In 2020, Travis County voters elected her to finish out Judge Denton’s unexpired term. And in 2022, she was overwhelmingly re-elected to a full four-year term.

Experience — Judge Dimple Malhotra

Dimple Malhotra serves as a judge of Travis County Court at Law 4. She was appointed to the bench in 2019 to fill Judge Mike Denton’s vacancy, then was elected by Travis County voters in 2020 to complete the unexpired term and reelected in 2022 to a full four-year term.

Has served as a Travis County Court at Law 4 judge, presiding over cases within the court’s jurisdiction and issuing rulings and orders since 2019.

Over 25 years of experience working with the dynamics of domestic violence, including six years at non-profit agencies in Texas and California.

- Has served as a Travis County Court at Law 4 judge, presiding over cases within the court’s jurisdiction and issuing rulings and orders since 2019.
- Over 25 years of experience working with the dynamics of domestic violence, including six years at non-profit agencies in Texas and California.

Legal Experience

As Judge, her priorities include:

Ensuring equal protection under the law.

Protecting the safety of alleged victims and the community while steadfastly guarding the rights of defendants.

Increasing privacy for those seeking sexual assault protective orders.

Establishing a new diversion program for first-time offenders that provides counseling and services to help break the cycle of domestic violence.

Advocating on behalf of efforts to educate children and teens about how to maintain healthy relationships and how to deal with family violence and teen dating violence, trying to address domestic violence tendencies early in a person’s life.

Treating each and every person who appears in her court with the kindness, compassion, and respect that all of us deserve.

Judge Malhotra has wanted to help people dealing with domestic violence since high school.

She believes in helping offenders unlearn domestic violence behaviors through mental health services, counseling, treatment, and diversion.

A perspective that is lacking in our judicial system.

Prioritizes protecting alleged victims and the community while guarding defendants' rights.

Prioritizes equal protection under the law.

Prioritizes treating people appearing in her court with kindness, compassion, and respect.

Believes offenders can unlearn domestic-violence behaviors through mental-health services, counseling, treatment, and diversion.

- Prioritizes protecting alleged victims and the community while guarding defendants' rights.
- Prioritizes equal protection under the law.
- Prioritizes treating people appearing in her court with kindness, compassion, and respect.
- Believes offenders can unlearn domestic-violence behaviors through mental-health services, counseling, treatment, and diversion.

Judicial Philosophy

As Judge, her priorities include:

Ensuring equal protection under the law.

Protecting the safety of alleged victims and the community while steadfastly guarding the rights of defendants.

Increasing privacy for those seeking sexual assault protective orders.

Establishing a new diversion program for first-time offenders that provides counseling and services to help break the cycle of domestic violence.

Advocating on behalf of efforts to educate children and teens about how to maintain healthy relationships and how to deal with family violence and teen dating violence, trying to address domestic violence tendencies early in a person’s life.

Significant leadership experience:

Kept the protective order docket moving during the pandemic to protect vulnerable members of the community.

Led Family Violence Units at the misdemeanor and felony levels.

Led Travis County’s Protective Orders Division.

Plans to increase privacy for people seeking sexual-assault protective orders.

Plans to establish a diversion program for first-time offenders that provides counseling and services addressing domestic violence.

Kept the protective-order docket moving during the pandemic.

- Plans to increase privacy for people seeking sexual-assault protective orders.
- Plans to establish a diversion program for first-time offenders that provides counseling and services addressing domestic violence.
- Kept the protective-order docket moving during the pandemic.

Judicial Administration

As of July 22, 2026, Dimple Malhotra’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Ethics & Conduct

Community Involvement

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Dimple Malhotra

- Has served as a Travis County Court at Law 4 judge, presiding over cases within the court’s jurisdiction and issuing rulings and orders since 2019.

Dimple Malhotra is from New Delhi, India.

Dimple is a judge for Travis County Court-at-Law, where she has served since 2019. Before taking the bench, she worked as a staff attorney and advocate at nonprofit agencies in Texas and California for six years. She also served as the chief of the Travis County Family Violence Unit from 2006 to 2019. Dimple has over 13 years of first-chair criminal trial experience.

Dimple is currently a judge on the Travis County Court at Law No. 4. She was appointed to the court in 2019 and re-elected in 2020 and 2022. 

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- A County Court-At-Law judge handles misdemeanors, such as assault of a family member, property theft between $750 and $2,500, and using force against a law enforcement officer. They also handle civil cases where the amount in question does not exceed $200,000. 
- County Court-At-Law judges conduct arraignments, pre-trial hearings, and jury trials, as well as accept guilty pleas. 
- They are elected in a partisan, county-wide election to a four-year term. 
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, at least 25 years old, have been a Texas and county resident for at least 24 consecutive months, a practicing lawyer and/or judge in Texas for at least four years, and registered to vote in that county.
- The annual salary for County Court-At-Law Judges ranges from $174,000 to $244,500, depending on years of service and how much they receive as a county supplement.

Handles civil and criminal cases from District Courts.

Travis County Court-At-Law Judge, Post 4

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