AUSTIN — Today, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick appointed Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa to the Texas Commission on Judicial Selection to conduct an interim study on how the state should select its judges in the future. The 15-member Commission will review the method by which appellate court judges and trial court judges having county-wide jurisdiction are selected for office in Texas. The study must consider the fairness, effectiveness, and desirability of selecting the judges through partisan elections, as well as judicial selection methods proposed or adopted by other states. Senator Hinojosa issued the following statement on the importance of this study and ...