2026 Texas General Election

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Sylvia Holmes

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Sylvia Holmes has a bachelor 27s degree in marketing from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the University of Alabama. She lives in Austin.

Sylvia is an attorney and a justice of the peace. She has served as a justice of the peace for Travis County since 2019. Before taking the bench, she worked as an attorney for the Law Office of Sylvia Holmes from 2007 to 2019. She also served as an associate director of legal services for students at the University of Texas at Austin from 2014 to 2009. Earlier in her career, she worked as an attorney for students at Texas State University from 2012 to 2014 and as an attorney for the University of Texas at Austin from 2009 to 2014. She also worked as a legal assistant at IE Discovery, Inc. from 2006 to 2007.

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Sylvia is currently a Travis County Justice of the Peace - Precinct 3. She was first elected to this position in 2018. She previously served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from 2011 to 2012.

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Has over 20 years of experience in small claims and misdemeanor criminal law.

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

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Serves as the 3rd Vice President of the Justices of the Peace & Constables Association of Texas.

Serves as a board member of the State Bar of Texas Justice Courts Section.

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- Justices of the Peace oversee Justice Courts, trial courts for civil cases up to $20,000, and misdemeanor cases punishable only by fine. They also perform marriages, issue warrants, conduct preliminary hearings, and serve as notaries.
- Texas has 835 Justice Courts, each presided over by a single judge. Every county has between one and eight precincts based on the county's population, each with its own Justice Court.
- Justices of the Peace are elected through partisan, precinct-wide election to four-year terms. 
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years old, have been a Texas resident for at least 12 consecutive months, a district resident for at least six consecutive months, and registered to vote in that precinct.
- The annual salary for Justices of the Peace ranges from $19,207 to $151,805 and is by the county's Commissioners Court.


Presides over civil cases and fine-only misdemeanor cases.