Judge, 299th District Court (Travis County)

Karen R. Sage is the presiding judge of the 299th Criminal District Court in Travis County, a role the county court page says she has held since January 2011². A biography published by the National Association of Women Judges says she was a state assistant district attorney in Travis County and, before that, a federal prosecutor³. She is the only candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat¹.

• Presiding judge, 299th Criminal District Court (a felony court), since January 2011²
• Per a biography published by the National Association of Women Judges: began her legal career in 1991 as a commercial litigator at O'Melveny & Myers, served as chief counsel to the Mayor of Los Angeles, was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, and was a Travis County assistant district attorney who pioneered the county's specialty docket for mental health³
• Per the same biography: developed a reentry court to supervise graduates of a state substance abuse treatment program; has taught criminal law courses at Duke University and the University of Texas; is a cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Law³
• Per the county court page, she has served as presiding judge of the 299th District Court since January 2011². The biography says she was elected judge of the 299th District Court in 2010³.