She became a Houston municipal judge at age 28, the youngest sitting judge on that court at the time.
Guerra earned her law degree at the University of Houston after working public-interest fellowships with Texas Rural Legal Aid and Michigan farmworker legal services, then clerked for a federal judge before spending nearly 20 years practicing civil law and becoming the first Hispanic partner at her law firm. In 2020 she unseated the incumbent to win her seat on the 1st Court of Appeals, and she's now running for a second term.
Judges aren't allowed to take sides on these values — it's against judicial ethics rules. The best clue to how a judge thinks is the party they run with.