There are two Texas Supreme Court seats with contested races in the March 2, 2010 Texas primary. Links to newspaper endorsements and candidate profiles are on my “2010 Elections” page.

Three candidates (all for Place 3) responded to the Q&A sent out by the blog — Rebecca Simmons, Rick Strange, and Debra Lehrmann.

If you need more information, you can get links to the official campaign websites for Place 3 candidates or Place 9 candidates.

I’m pleased to present you with our third candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Judge Debra Lehrmann currently serves as District Judge of the 360th Judicial District in Fort Worth. She is one of six Republicans vying for the nomination for Place 3, the seat being vacated by the retirement of Justice Harriet O’Neill.

Click through for the complete candidate Q&A with Judge Lehrmann

Earlier this week, the State Bar of Texas released the results of its member poll about judicial candidates.

Click through for the results

I’m pleased to present you with our second candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Justice Rick Strange currently serves on the Eleventh Court of Appeals based out of Eastland. He is one of six Republicans vying for the nomination for Place 3, the seat being vacated by the retirement of Justice Harriet O’Neill.

Click through for the complete candidate Q&A with Justice Strange

I’m pleased to present you with our first candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Justice Rebecca Simmons currently serves on the Fourth Court of Appeals based out of San Antonio. She is one of six Republicans vying for the nomination for Place 3, the seat being vacated by the retirement of Justice Harriet O’Neill.

Click through for the complete candidate Q&A with Justice Simmons

The Texas Tribune has an article today about the challenge in the Republican primary to incumbent Justice Felipe Reyna of the Waco Court of Appeals. Justice Reyna was appointed by Governor Perry in 2003 and reelected in 2004.

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I’ve found five Texas Supreme Court candidates (so far) who have active Twitter accounts.

I’ve combined their feeds together into this Twitter list, which you can follow to get a sense of the unglamorous life of a statewide candidate. (I will keep that list updated as other candidates start using the service.)

You can find individual Twitter feeds, as well as campaign website and other social media links, organized under the blog’s 2010 Texas Supreme Court Elections page.

This will be the second election cycle for SCOTXblog.

To help readers follow and make sense of the Texas Supreme Court campaigns, I’ve added a page about the 2010 Texas Supreme Court Elections through a link on the menu bar.

I will be adding new resources and links as I get them. As always, I appreciate anything helpful you want to bring to my attention.

SCOTXblog Candidate Q&A

I’m also considering a SCOTXblog Candidate Q&A, giving each Texas Supreme Court candidate the chance to answer a few questions with the results printed here.

My plan is to ask questions that might say something about the candidates’ approach to deciding cases — the types of questions we lawyers ask new judges as soon as they’ve been elected. Why not ask them now?

If you have thoughts about this idea, or a favorite question you’d like to see answered, please leave a comment or send me a private email.