Judge Bill Miller has announced as a candidate for re-election as Texas District Judge for the 5th District Court serving Bowie County and Cass County, Texas. Judge Miller filed his application for re-election with the Republican Party of Texas on November 14, 2023 in Austin, Texas. The application was approved November 21, 2023, and Judge Miller is listed as an official candidate with the Texas Secretary of State for the March 5, 2024 Republican Primary election.
Judge Miller has served as the Judge of the 5th District Court since January 2015, after appointment by Governor Rick Perry, and was re-elected in the November general election by the citizens of Bowie and Cass counties in 2016 and again in 2020.
“I have been honored to serve the citizens of Bowie and Cass counties as District Judge since 2015 and look forward to continuing to represent the district’s citizens in the criminal, family, and civil justice systems,” Judge Miller said. “I have presided over more than 140 jury trials, thousands of bench trials, and have closed more than 13,000 cases since becoming a judge. As the judge of a Texas court of general jurisdiction, we hear every kind of family, criminal, and civil case you can imagine.” In addition to conducting court proceedings each week in Bowie or Cass County, Judge Miller has served as the Administrative District Judge in Cass County since 2015 and in Bowie County in 2019 and 2020. Judge Miller is a current member of the Juvenile Probation Board of Directors and Adult Probation Boards of Directors for both Bowie and Cass Counties, as well as the Courthouse security committees.
