{"id":1489559,"date":"2026-03-19T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1489559"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:10:45","slug":"new-da-in-cherokee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1489559","title":{"rendered":"New DA in Cherokee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1273649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-177x175.jpg 177w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-353x350.jpg 353w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>JACKSONVILLE  \u2013 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed David Broom to serve as the new District Attorney for the 2nd Judicial District in Cherokee County. Before being appointed, Broom served as an assistant district attorney in the Cherokee County District Attorney\u2019s Office and is a member of the Texas State Bar and the Cherokee County Bar Association.<\/p>\n<p>Broom was appointed to the position after Abbott named the now former Cherokee County District Attorney, Jonathan Richey, to be judge of the 369th Judicial District Court. Broom holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from UT Tyler and a law degree from the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE \u2013 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed David Broom to serve as the new District Attorney for the 2nd Judicial District in Cherokee County. Before being appointed, Broom served as an assistant district attorney in the Cherokee County District Attorney\u2019s Office and is a member of the Texas State Bar and the Cherokee County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1489559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New DA in Cherokee County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1489961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 03:23:33","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\/2023\/11\/cherokeeco-175x173.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489559","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489559"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489984,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489559\/revisions\/1489984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}