Kevin Patrick Yeary was first elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2014. He earned his law degree from St. Mary’s University and worked as a prosecutor in Dallas, Houston and then in San Antonio. He’s seeking a third six-year term and faces Democrat Audra Riley in November.

Andrea Drusch is a Texas politics reporter covering local, state and federal government for the San Antonio Report. She has a journalism degree from TCU's Schieffer School and started her career in Washington,...