Here are the 2022 candidates running for statewide executive and judicial offices. Candidate information comes from Texas Secretary of State data, the candidates and other sources.
Governor
Greg Abbott
Abbott is seeking his third term as governor and won reelection to his second term by 13 percentage points over former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Before being elected governor he was the state's attorney general from 2002 to 2015.
Republican Party
Incumbent
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Campaign:
Personal:
Campaign:
P.O. Box 308, Austin, TX 78767
Beto O’Rourke
O'Rourke represented Texas' 16th Congressional District from 2013 to 2019 and lost a high-profile race for U.S. Senate to Ted Cruz by 3 percentage points in 2018. In 2019, he launched a short-lived presidential campaign.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 302647, Austin, TX 78703
Mark Tippetts
A former council member in the Hill Country community of Lago Vista, Tippetts was nominated by the state's Libertarian Party as its gubernatorial candidate. According to his campaign website, Tippetts is an international business and legal consultant specializing in helping companies and individuals do business in Mexico.
Libertarian Party
Challenger
Delilah Barrios
A native of Brownsville, Barrios was nominated by the Green Party as its gubernatorial candidate.
Green Party
Challenger
Lt. Governor
Dan Patrick
A former radio talk show host, Patrick is seeking his third term as lieutenant governor. Before becoming lieutenant governor, he represented a Houston-area district in the Texas Senate.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Campaign:
P.O. Box 685085, Austin, TX 78768
Mike Collier
Collier is making his second run for lieutenant governor after having lost to incumbent Dan Patrick in 2018 by 5 percentage points. A former Republican, he worked in the oil and gas industry and as an accountant and auditor. He ran for comptroller in 2014.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 14648, Humble, TX 77347
Shanna Steele
Steele is a student at a Houston community college and a former federal employee.
Libertarian Party
Challenger
Attorney General
Ken Paxton
A former Texas state representative and senator, Paxton is seeking his third term as attorney general. He was indicted on state charges of securities fraud in 2015 related to the sale of securities in 2011. He has pleaded not guilty but has not yet stood trial due to legal wrangling over issues including where the case should be tried.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Campaign:
P.O. Box 3476, McKinney, TX 75070
Rochelle Mercedes Garza
Raised in Brownsville, Garza has worked as a staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas and in private practice. She defeated former Galveston mayor and attorney Joe Jaworski in a runoff to win the Democratic nomination in her first run for public office.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 5683, Brownsville, TX 78523
Mark Ash
Ash is a Houston attorney practicing criminal law. He was nominated by the Libertarian Party of Texas as its candidate for attorney general.
Libertarian Party
Challenger
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Glenn Hegar
Hegar is seeking his third term as the state's comptroller of public accounts, the state's chief financial officer responsible for collecting taxes and projecting state revenue. A graduate of the St. Mary's University School of Law, he served as a state senator before being elected comptroller.
Republican Party
Incumbent
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Campaign:
P.O. Box 1008, Katy, TX 77492
Janet T. Dudding
A resident of Bryan-College Station, Dudding is a certified public accountant who retired early from her job at Texas A&M University to run for comptroller of public accounts, the office that oversees the state budget, collects taxes and projects state revenue. She previously worked for government entities in budgeting and finance.
Democratic Party
Challenger
V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza
Echevarria-Garza is the city manager in the East Texas town of Hearne, where he previously worked as the town's chief financial officer. He also has worked in finance roles in the municipalities of Big Spring and Port Isabel.
Libertarian Party
Challenger
Land Commissioner
A physician, Buckingham was elected to the Texas Senate in 2016, representing Travis County, and reelected in 2022.
Republican Party
Challenger
District:
819 Water Street Suite 125 Kerrville, Texas 78028
Campaign:
1010 N Lamar St, Austin, TX 78703
Kleberg is the former associate director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, which raises private money to conserve land and support the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He is a member of the family that owns the sprawling King Ranch in South Texas.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 42246, Austin, TX 78704
Alfred Molison Jr.
Molison previously ran for the Texas House of Representatives in 2012 and for Houston's city council.
Green Party
Challenger
Agriculture Commissioner
Sid Miller
A former state representative, Miller is seeking his third term as agriculture commissioner. Miller also breeds and trains quarter horses.
Republican Party
Incumbent
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Campaign:
Personal:
Campaign:
6407 S US Hwy 377, Stephenville, TX 76401
Susan Hays
Hays is an attorney whose practice is focused on the cannabis industry. She lives in Alpine, where she grows hops and hemp.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 41647, Austin, TX 78704
Railroad Commissioner
Wayne Christian
A former state representative, Christian is seeking his second term as one of Texas' three railroad commissioners.
Republican Party
Incumbent
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Personal:
Campaign:
204 Houston St, Center, TX 75935
Luke Warford
Warford is a former staff member at the Texas Democratic Party, including working as its chief strategy officer.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 6020, Austin, TX 78762
Jaime Andres Díez
Díez has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist University, works in logistics in Brownsville and is a board member of the Rio Grand Valley Blockchain Initiative.
Libertarian Party
Challenger
Hunter Wayne Crow
Crow previously ran for the Arlington City Council.
Green Party
Challenger
Texas Supreme Court
Place 3
Debra Lehrmann
Lehrmann is seeking a third six-year term on the all-Republican Supreme Court and is its senior justice. A trial judge in Tarrant County for 23 years, she was appointed to the court in 2010 by then-Gov. Rick Perry and won election later that year.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Campaign:
P.O. Box 1394, Austin, TX 78767
Erin A. Nowell
Nowell was elected to the Fifth District Court of Appeals, based in Dallas, in 2018. As an attorney, she practiced toxic-tort litigation and class-action litigation and has worked both for plaintiffs and as a defense attorney.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Thomas Oxford
A Beaumont attorney, Oxford graduated from the University of Houston's law school. He practices law in the areas of personal injury and immigration.
Libertarian Party
Challenger
Place 5
Rebeca Huddle
A native of El Paso, Huddle was appointed to the all-Republican Supreme Court in 2020, replacing Justice Paul Green, who retired. She won election to the First Court of Appeals in 2012 before returning to private practice in 2017.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Amanda Reichek
A native of Houston, Reichek was elected to the Dallas-based Fifth Court of Appeals in 2018. Before being elected to the bench, she specialized in labor and employment law.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 180551, Dallas, TX 75218
Place 9
Evan Young
A graduate of Clark High School in San Antonio, Young was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2021 by Gov. Greg Abbott, replacing Justice Eva Guzman, who resigned to run for Texas Attorney General. Young practiced law in Austin, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and worked in the Justice Department as counsel to the Attorney General under Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey during the George W. Bush administration.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Campaign:
1005 Congress Ave, #400, Austin, TX 78701
Maldonado is a judge on the 507th District Court, a family law court in Harris County. She earned her law degree from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston and founded her own law firm.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 2804, Houston, TX 77252
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Place 2
Mary Lou Keel
Keel was elected to the Court of Criminal Appeals in 2016. She is running unopposed for a second six-year term.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Place 5
Scott Walker
Walker is seeking his second six-year term on the all-Republican appeals court. Before being elected to the bench, he practiced law in the areas of criminal litigation and civil defense.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Dana Huffman
Based in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Huffman is a municipal judge and magistrate in North Texas. She also works as a prosecutor and has served as a faculty member for the Texas Municipal Court Education Center.
Democratic Party
Challenger
Campaign:
P.O. Box 942221, Plano, TX 75094
Place 6
Jesse F. McClure III
McClure was appointed to the all-Republican appeals court by Gov. Greg Abbott in 2020. He previously served as judge of the 339th District Court in Harris County, an assistant district attorney in Tarrant County and a special prosecutor for the Texas Department of Insurance.
Republican Party
Incumbent
Campaign:
P.O. Box 53901, Houston, TX 77052
Robert Johnson
Johnson presides over the 177th District Court in Harris County. He practiced criminal law before being elected to the bench in 2016, when he defeated incumbent Ryan Patrick, the son of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Democratic Party
Challenger
