Jimmy Blacklock is from Missouri City. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from Yale University. Jimmy has three children with his wife, and serves as a deacon at Tarrytown Christian Church.

Jimmy is Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He works at the Texas Supreme Court, where he has been since 2018 and has served as Chief Justice since 2025. He previously worked as general counsel to Governor Greg Abbott, served six years as an attorney in the Texas Attorney General's office, worked as an attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and began his career as a law clerk to Judge Jerry Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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Jimmy previously worked as general counsel to Governor Greg Abbott, as an attorney in the Texas Attorney Genera's Office, and as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.

Jimmy Blacklock is currently the Chief Justice for Place 1 on the Texas Supreme Court. He was first appointed to the Supreme Court in January 2018, elected later that year, and is serving his second term.

Jimmy currently serves as a Texas Supreme Court justice. He was first appointed in 2018 and is serving his second term.

As a lawyer, Blacklock represented the State of Texas in significant cases related to constitutional liberties, religious liberty, property rights, election integrity, and federalism.

As an attorney, "defend[ed] the state’s restrictive abortion and voter identification laws, gay marriage restrictions and crusade against the Affordable Care Act."

- As an attorney, "defend[ed] the state’s restrictive abortion and voter identification laws, gay marriage restrictions and crusade against the Affordable Care Act."

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As of January 22, 2026, Jimmy Blacklock’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Believes judges should be "a neutral arbiter of the law," and "apply the law fairly, equally, and according to its original meaning."

- Believes judges should be "a neutral arbiter of the law," and "apply the law fairly, equally, and according to its original meaning."

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- The Texas Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and eight additional justices, who decide civil cases brought to them as a group.
- The Court has administrative control over the State Bar of Texas, while serving as the sole authority for licensing attorneys and appointing members of the Board of Law Examiners that administers the bar exam.
- The Court approves new statewide rules, ranging from judicial administration, conduct, and education, to civil and appellate procedure.
- They serve as the final authority on civil cases, checking for any errors that occurred in the interpretation of the law by prior courts.
- The chief justice of the Supreme Court is elected in a partisan, state-wide election for a six-year term. Candidates must be registered to vote in the state of Texas, be at least 35 years old but not older than 75 years old, cannot be a convicted felon, must be a practicing lawyer and/or judge in the state of Texas for at least 10 years, and must have lived continuously in Texas for at least twelve months.
- The annual salary for the chief justice of the Supreme Court ranges from $224,700 and $279,300, depending on their years of service as a judge of selected courts or an elected attorney, along with years of contributing service credit to the Judicial Retirement System Plan (I or II) while serving as a state judge.