She made history in 2008 as the first woman ever elected to Bexar County's 57th District Court, a court that had existed for more than a century before she got there.
Arteaga has spent almost two decades as a Bexar County state district judge, presiding over civil cases in the 57th District Court. She's held leadership roles in local, statewide, and national judicial organizations, and now she's running to become the top administrator overseeing the 4th Court of Appeals, a 32-county system.
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.