He was Greg Abbott's own lawyer until Abbott put him on the Texas Supreme Court in January 2025. Now he's asking voters to keep him there.
Sullivan grew up in Austin, walked on to the Rice football team, and went to Harvard Law, where he met his wife on the Law Review. Before becoming the Governor's General Counsel he clerked on the D.C. Circuit and worked in the Solicitor General's office under then-Attorney General Abbott.
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.