He's a Dallas litigation attorney who has spent his career arguing cases through trial and appeals courts across Texas, and now he wants to be the judge deciding those appeals instead of arguing them.
Kolodoski is a partner in the Dallas office of a national litigation firm, where his practice covers a wide range of civil litigation and appellate matters in both state and federal courts. He ran unopposed in the Republican primary for Place 3 on the Fifth Court of Appeals.
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.