{"id":1466268,"date":"2025-12-20T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1466268"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:52:43","slug":"local-district-judge-running-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1466268","title":{"rendered":"Local district judge running for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/PLg7RPqw-200x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1466269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/PLg7RPqw-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/PLg7RPqw-350x350.webp 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/PLg7RPqw-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/PLg7RPqw.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Debby Gunter, a Smith County judge in the 241st District Court, has declared her intention to run for reelection in 2026. Gunter is seeking re-election in the Republican Primary on March 3. He was first elected as a judge of the court in 2023.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gunter stated to our news partner KETK that she&#8217;s running for re-election because the people of Smith County deserve a court system that operates effectively, treats everyone with respect, and applies the law with integrity. Gunter&#8217;s campaign claims that during her first term, the 241st District Court has decided over 4,200 criminal and civil cases. Gunter practiced law at Tyler&#8217;s Findlay Craft, P.C. prior to becoming a judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Debby Gunter, a Smith County judge in the 241st District Court, has declared her intention to run for reelection in 2026. Gunter is seeking re-election in the Republican Primary on March 3. He was first elected as a judge of the court in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1466323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/PLg7RPqw-200x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 01:09:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/PLg7RPqw-200x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466268"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466900,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466268\/revisions\/1466900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}