EXPERIENCED• 12 years Civil District Court judge • Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization • Prior to the bench, Partner in respected litigation firm • Former Adjunct Professor at University of Houston Law Center RESPECTED • Winner 2010 Houston Bar Association Judicial Qualifications Poll by almost 5 to 1 over her opponent. • Consistently rated “Outstanding” in the HBA Polls Ratings. • Recognized by peers with election to the American Board of Trial Advocates. • Nominated “Trial Judge of the Year” by Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists • Trial Judge of the Year, Houston Police Officers Union, Local 2 DEDICATED TO SERVICE • Member, Pattern Jury Charge Committee • Member, State Bar Jury Service Committee • Member, Ethics Committee, National Association of Women Judges • Chair-Elect Alternate Dispute Resolution Section, HBA • Immediate Past Chair, Leadership Houston • “Woman on the Move,”Texas Executive Women • Immediate Past President, Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists • Former Member, Committee on Judicial Ethics, State Bar of Texas • Former Chair, Ethics Committee, Board of Civil Judges • Former Chair, Administration of Justice Committee, Board of District Judges KEEP JUDGE CAROLINE Baker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 295TH DISTRICT COURT About Judge Caroline Baker A fifth-generation Texan, Caroline Baker has served the citizens of Harris County as a judge for 12 years. Prior to the bench, she was a partner in the litigation firm of McFall, Sherwood & Sheehy. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Texas School of Law, she is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and was elected to membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates, an honorary organization of plaintiff and defense lawyers (as well as judges) dedicated to the preservation of the right to trial by jury. Judge Baker also is a mediator, certified by the AA White Dispute Resolution Center. Strongly committed to professional service, Judge Baker currently serves on two committees of the State Bar of Texas and has served as a member of the Committee on Judicial Ethics. She has previously served as Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Board of Civil Judges and Chair of the Administration of Justice Committee for the Board of District Judges. She also is a member of the Ethics Committee for the National Association of Women Judges. She served as Secretary and is now the ChairElect of the ADR Section of the Houston Bar Association. She has been a member and Chair of a State Bar Grievance Committee. Judge Baker also spends time mentoring aspiring lawyers through internships in the court and judging mock trials and hearings for Houston law school students. Judge Baker is a graduate of Leadership Houston (where she received the Patrice Johnson Alumnus Award for Leadership), the American Leadership Forum, and the Center for Houston’s Future. She has been honored by Aspiring Youth with the “Star for Girls’ Education” Award, and was selected by Texas Executive Women as a “Woman on the Move” and by Houston Woman magazine as one of “50 Most Influential Women in Houston.” Equally committed to community service, she serves and/or has served on the Board of Directors of many non-profit organizations, including Neighborhood Centers Inc., Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston (Former Chair), Leadership Houston (Immediate Past Chair), the YMCA, and on the Advisory Boards of The Chinquapin School, Career & Recovery Resources, Inc. and City Hall Fellows. Above all, Judge Baker is devoted to her family. She and her husband, Bruce Hurley, are the proud parents of three children: Grace Elizabeth (9), Emma (6) and Bruce, III (5). She is a lifelong member of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church. www.votejudgecarolinebaker.com pd. pol. ad Caroline Baker Campaign