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Judge Dennise Garcia

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About Me

I am the judge of the 303rd State District Court (Family) in Dallas County, Texas. I was elected in the Fall of 2004, and was re-elected in 2006.
Visit my official campaign website here.

Prior to becoming a judge, I practiced family law for over 11 years. I am Board Certified in Family Law. I was chosen as a "Texas Superlawyer" for two years in a row.I live in Dallas with my husband, Eric Folkerth, and our daughter Maria.

My Interests

Running, Quilting, Violin, Golf

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, New friends...

Music:

Eric Folkerth, Tish Hinojosa, The Dixie Chicks, Indigo Girls, Leanne Rhimes, Seal, John Mayer, U2, Billy Joel

Movies:

Star Wars, Real Women have Curves, An Incovenient Truth, Big Fish, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Television:

60 Minutes, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, George Lopez, My name is Earl, Boston Legal,

Heroes:

Judge Barefoot Sanders, my parents, my husband.

My Blog

Reflections on the Election.

I felt that I needed to write something about what has happened since the election, although I haven't really had any idea about what to write.  I was ecstatic at having won the election, but rea...
Posted by Judge Dennise Garcia on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:52:00 PST

2 days before the election....guess what I'm doing?

Amid all the craziness and the need to do 5,000 things before election Tuesday, I woke up this morning and had the urge to clean the shower.  So I did.  During the busiest time of my life, ...
Posted by Judge Dennise Garcia on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:42:00 PST

A 9 year old bundle of joy.

I can remember where I was exactly 9 years ago today.  OK, well, I can't remember it in really great detail.  I just know that I was in pain for a large part of it while I was waiting for my...
Posted by Judge Dennise Garcia on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:39:00 PST

Getting involved--Notes from the campaign trail.

We've started campaigning really intensely in the last couple of weeks.  I won't say that I'd forgotten how much work a campaign is (it seems like we never stopped from the last campaign), but I ...
Posted by Judge Dennise Garcia on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:57:00 PST

I can stop any time I want....really!

So I've gone from a cautious approach to My Space, to logging on way too much and figuring out new features faster than my husband (which is really weird).  He watched me make some changes to my ...
Posted by Judge Dennise Garcia on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:41:00 PST

Trying new things...

Here I go....  I've never had a blog before.  Nor have I really understood the "My Space" thing.  But when a friend of mine (Greg) suggested that I get a my space profile, my husband ju...
Posted by Judge Dennise Garcia on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:15:00 PST