He spent his career as a prosecutor in Dallas, Houston, and Bexar County — and has been on Texas's highest criminal court for over a decade.
Yeary earned his law degree from St. Mary's University and spent years as an assistant district attorney in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties before being first elected to the Court of Criminal Appeals in 2014. He's seeking a third six-year 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.