Judge Peter Sakai made his career overseeing the children's court. Now others are vying to continue his work.
Yet Sakai received high praise and media attention for his years of work on the children’s court, andSakai declined to be interviewed for the story.Both graduated from St. Mary’s University School of Law: Hortick after receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts and working as an aide for former U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy in Boston, Yanta after graduating from the University of Texas and working several years as a public school teacher in Austin and then in San Antonio.
Her perspective changed the more she worked on CPS cases. Hortick said she was first appointed to represent children or parents, then eventually was retained by clients such as foster parents and grandparents seeking to keep or regain custody of children. State criminal and civil district court judges are typically swept in and out of office by the political tides of the election cycle, which in 2018 took out nine Republican incumbents, including Yanta. That year Democrat Beto O’Rourke“When evaluating who should be your judge you look at a lot of criteria, and while our state overlays that with [partisan affiliations], we all need to be taking a more serious look at people’s qualifications,” said Yanta.
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