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This page has Travis-specific information on name & gender marker change.

Look on this page to see who's the scheduled judge for the week. It gets updated every Friday. (If the link is broken, try poking around beginning on the Travis County Civil Courts Dockets page; look for links saying "duty judges" or "duty").

Judges

Please list only judges that you know firsthand to be sympathetic/supportive to name and gender marker changes by transgender people.

Friendly

• Judge Suzanne Covington
  • April 21, 2015: 201st District Court of Travis County, TX; petition: MtF, name change

• Judge Karin Crump

• Judge Rhonda Hurley
  • July 1, 2016
  • June 20, 2014: 53rd District Court of Travis County, TX; petition: name change and MtF gender marker change

• Judge Scott Jenkins

• Judge Amy Clark Meachum
  • "Judge Meachum is known to be LGBT friendly, but one person had issues getting their name changed. The judge ended up allowing the petition to go to a different judge w/o needing to file it again."
  • "She's very trans friendly."

• Judge Tim Sulak

• Judge Gisela D. Triana

Hostile

• Judge Amy Clark Meachum. See also above, under "Friendly".
  • Petition: MtF, name change

Procedures

Please only include steps/procedures that are specific to this county. For steps/procedures that apply generally in Texas, please see the Main Page.