He clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices — Byron White and John Paul Stevens — then built an appellate career in Houston before being appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in 2019.
Busby graduated from Duke and Columbia Law School before clerking at the highest level of the federal judiciary. He was a partner at Bracewell and a justice on the 14th Court of Appeals before his appointment. He's seeking his first full elected 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.