Judge, 284th District Court (Montgomery County)

Kristin Bays is judge of the 284th District Court in Montgomery County². She took the bench on January 1, 2019, succeeding retiring Judge Cara Wood³. She is the only candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat¹.

• Judge, 284th District Court (Montgomery County); a 2019 local news report described it as the only full-time civil court in the region³
• Before the bench she was an attorney and had worked as a court investigator under Judge Claudia Laird, according to the East Montgomery County Gazette; she won the March 2018 Republican primary for the seat³
• Won the March 2018 Republican primary and the 2018 election to succeed retiring District Judge Cara Wood, and was sworn in January 1, 2019, according to the East Montgomery County Gazette³.
• Public discipline: Searched the State Commission on Judicial Conduct public sanctions pages for fiscal years 2002 through 2026 (every year the site lists) on 2026-10-01, by surname; no public sanction naming this candidate was found. The FY2026 page covers only sanctions published through that date. Private sanctions are not published by name, and the Commission's separate suspension and resignation lists were not searched.⁴