Eleanor Klibanoff

Over 35 years, Hecht modernized the court, increased access to justice for the poor and saw his conservative views come to dominate the bench.

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas led a letter calling for a briefing on why the state won’t review 2022 and 2023 deaths.

Nathan Hecht's election to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988 foreshadowed a coming transformation of the court, civil legal procedure and Texas itself

When Nathan Hecht ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, no Republican had ever been elected to the state's highest civil court.

When Nathan Hecht ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, no Republican had ever been elected to the state's highest civil court.

Hecht is the longest-tenured Supreme Court justice in Texas history. He won six reelections and led the court as chief justice for more than a decade.

Texas' maternal mortality committee faces scrutiny for not reviewing deaths from 2022 and 2023, raising concerns about the impact of the state's abortion ban.

Blacklock replaces Nathan Hecht, the longest serving justice on the high court. Gov. Greg Abbott also appointed his general counsel, James Sullivan, to the bench.

More than 2,800 Texans are getting abortion pills through the mail from out-of-state every month, prompting a lawsuit and legislation seeking to end the practice.

Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a conservative ally of Gov. Greg Abbott , has been named the new chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.