Heather Jefts

Heather Jefts is currently a Cedar Park City Council member. She was elected in 2017 and is serving her third term. She previously ran for reelection to the Cedar Park City Council in 2019 and did not win.

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Meet Heather Jefts of Cedar Park - Voyage Austin

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

Believes public trust is "hard to earn and easily lost" and plans to maintain it by upholding the highest standards, supporting strong ethics policy, and engaging the public regularly.

Believes public trust is "hard to earn and easily lost" and plans to uphold the highest standards to maintain that trust.

As a city council member, Jefts passed financial disclosure requirements for city council members to increase transparency and avoid conflicts of interest.

Co-founded the Reveal Baby Blessings diaper ministry.

Serves on the Capital Area Council of Governments focusing on emergency response and disaster preparedness, as well as First Vice Chair of the Clean Air Coalition working to protect air quality and health.

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- Presides over commissioners court, county’s policy-making body. Helps adopt county budget, sets county tax rates, oversees building and maintaining county infrastructure, and other county government operations.
- Serves as judge of county court, taking on misdemeanor criminal and small civil cases, probate matters, and appeals from the justice of the peace court.
- Performs administration duties, ranging from hearings for beer and wine license applications to calling elections. Can serve as budget officer in counties with a smaller population.
- Serves as county’s emergency management director, with authority to designate an assistant to emergency management issues as emergency management coordinator.
- Represents county at ceremonial occasions and on various boards and committees, including Election Commission, Workforce Governing Board, and Bail Bond Board.
- County Judges are elected in a partisan, county-wide election to a four-year term. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years old, have been a Texas resident for at least 12 consecutive months, a county resident for at least six consecutive months, and registered to vote in that county.
- The annual salary for county judges range from $47,425 to $198,921, set by the county’s commissioners court.