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2026 Texas General Election

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Kenneth D. Sanders

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Kenneth Sanders is from Fort Worth, Texas. He has a bachelor 27s degree in business from Southern University. He has four sisters.

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Kenneth is a judge for Precinct 7 of the Tarrant County Justice of the Peace Courts. He previously worked as a manufacturing manager at General Motors and held positions at Lockheed Martin. 

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Kenneth is currently a judge for Precinct 7 of the Tarrant County Justice of the Peace Courts. He was first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. He previously ran for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 6th District in 2012 but did not win.

As of January 22, 2026, Kenneth D. Sanders’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Emphasizes accessibility and fairness in the justice system.

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Community Involvement

- 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.