Williams Challenges Boyd for SCOTX Place 7

In the race for the Place 7 seat on the Supreme Court of Texas, incumbent Republican Jeff Boyd is paired against Staci Williams, judge of the 101^st District Court in Dallas County.

Boyd was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2012 by Gov. Rick Perry, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of Republican Justice Dale Wainwright, who resigned to take a job in Austin with Bracewell & Giuliani, now known as Bracewell. (Wainwright is now co-chair of the national appellate practice at Greenberg Traurig.) At the time of his resignation, Wainwright was the third longest-serving justice on the court.