Retirement follows diversity concerns
After months of concern about equity and transparency in the county’s juvenile justice system, the boss of the system is stepping down.for the last 15 years, announced on Monday that she won’t seek re-election when her term concludes at the end of December.
Hurley also contested Davis’ remark that juvenile court judges are physically and emotionally removed from “his people,” meaning the Black and Brown children who find themselves in the system. “Contrary to what was quoted in theabout ‘my people’, these kids are not their kids, they are our kids,” Hurley wrote. “Ultimately, we as the Board, are the ones responsible for them.”
The judge finished by saying that no one was more dedicated to the youth in the juvenile justice system than she and that she was proud of her work. “But I cannot do this work without your support,” she said. “I will be deciding my future very soon. I know everyone is wondering.”, thanked Hurley in a statement on Monday for her three decades of service to the county and said she’d ask the Juvenile Board to appoint a team to prepare for the transition to new leadership.
“Travis County has an exceptionally deep well of talented and gifted lawyers who often run for elected office,” Meachum said. “The voters of Travis County, as well as the members of the Juvenile Board, will be well served to hear new ideas and new visions from the candidates hoping to become the next presiding judge of the 98th District Court.
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