Elsa Alcala

Elsa Alcala REPRepublican

American judge

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Elsa AlcalaREPRepublican American judge
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Elsa R. Alcala, also known as Elsa Spjut (born 1964), is a former Republican official who most recently served (2011–2018) as one of the nine judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was appointed to the Place 8 on the bench by then Governor Rick Perry, when Charles Holcomb stepped down to run in 2012 for the United States Senate. On July 16, 2019 she announced she was leaving the Republican Party to support Democrats at the state and national level.

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Texas A&I University
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University of Texas
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Criminal Pattern Jury Charge Committee, Bar Association, Texas
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