DUBAI: American judge Rabeea Collier has secured a third term on the 113th District Court in Harris County, Texas, winning the November 3 general election with 62 per cent of the vote.
Collier, a Democrat, received 825,469 votes against 507,720 for Republican challenger Paul M. Sullivan, according to results updated on November 6.
A native of Houston, Collier was first elected to the court in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. Her latest victory marks her third consecutive election win.
She is the first elected Pakistani-American state court judge in Texas and the state’s first elected Muslim state court judge, according to the Texas Association of District Judges.
Before joining the bench, Collier practised law for 12 years and was involved in grassroots political campaigns supporting Democratic candidates.
She graduated from Kingwood High School, earned a government degree from the University of Texas at Austin and obtained her law degree from Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
Collier is married to attorney Robert Collier and they have two sons.
