Katie Sprinkle is sworn in as a Dallas County magistrate (Courtesy Leslie McMurray)
Katie Sprinkle has closed her law practice and has been appointed a Dallas County Criminal Court magistrate. Sprinkle is the first transgender person appointed to a county criminal court in Texas and the second transgender judge in Texas after Phyllis Frye in Houston. Frye is an associate judge in the Houston municipal courts.
Sprinkle was sworn in today, Tuesday, Nov. 12.
To be appointed to the court, each of the elected criminal court judges had to sign off on the appointment, according to Judge Tina Yoo Clinton. A magistrate in Dallas County criminal courts does arraignments, sets bond, issues emergency protective orders and issues mental health warrants.
Sprinkle is known for her work with transgender people and has helped a number of them with name changes and correcting their gender markers on legal documents. Those corrections are done in civil courts and she will be working in Dallas County’s criminal courts.
Sprinkle is married to Leslie McMurray who works at Resource Center and is the first Dallas County district judge married to a same-sex partner.
— David Taffet
This is amazing! Congratulations!
Total NONSENSE. This is a man. He will always be a man. We’ve gone nuts with this silliness.
Well, he may not have nuts left…
Howcan someone with a psychological disorder be fit to issue mental health warrants?
Fantastic!!! Congratulations!!!
Absolutely ridiculous. This is a man. Period the end.
Freak show. Thisbisbdusgusting.
Wow! This world has gone Straight to Hell!
This is exactly what we get when we
deny Jesus Christ?
He was appointed. It’s a man in a dress.
“Sprinkle is married to Leslie McMurray who works at Resource Center and is the first Dallas County district judge married to a same-sex partner.” They are not same sex partners. They are a delusional man in a dress and a stupid woman in a sick relationship.
This is wrong
DNA is truth.
DNA does not lie .
How can you ignore truth and be a judge.
Who appointed this man ?
You might want to look up the definition of same-sex partner. This ain’t it.
Just saying..
Awesome news. Congratulations to her!
What’s the betting this appointment will be added to the female judge stats- woohoo another ‘female’ judge to laud.
But still the ratio of actual women to men in judgeships is woeful.
He’s a man in a dress.
“the horror, the horror…”
Sic!!
Wonderful news! Congratulations, Your Honor!
Congratulations Katie, will deserved recognition for yo you’re years of devoted service.
Congratulations, TX, for blindly jumping on the Lunacy Train. Not acknowledging mental illness in your own judiciary is a mistake, and I believe your great state will pay the price eventually for this lack of reasoning.
I am disgusted by all these homophobic, transphobic, educationphobic responses here. Great job Katie Sprinkle. May none of these asinine comments darken your day. It astonishes me that these people haven’t caught up to 2019 but change is hard for people. Even after the earth was confirmed to be round there were spherephobic minded people refusing to aklowledge the truth.
Standing up for truth and scientific fact is not being phobic of anything, especially education!
Rather those who claim that it is emotions, thoughts and feelings which determine that a person is a woman or man, and then chastising those who stand up for scientific facts and truth, are those who are being phobic. It is expressing fear of truth and science, thus making them truthphobes and sciencephobes, or factphobes if you wish.
How can a man who is unable to be honest with himself and truthful to others about himself regarding the most fundamental, elementary and basic scientific facts about himself possibly have any proficiency in an essential position in a field that requires honesty and truthfulness based on facts?
All these ignorant ass closed minded people and their comments, I hope you or yours have to appear before HER one day and she locks you away and throws away the key because the less ignorant and hate walking the streets the better off Texas will be!
Congrats to you Katie!!!!!! Very well deserved!!!!!!
anyone making a derogatory comment on someones sex, needs there head read ,,, anyone out there no matter there sex, should be congratulated for there work, giving them grief just proves you need to go to a therapist, and let them cure your poor homophobic life.