Judicial Experience

Judge Jim Coronado serves as Judge of the 427th Criminal District Court. Prior to serving in this position he was the Magistrate to the Travis County Criminal District Courts, a position to which he was unanimously appointed by the Travis County Criminal District Court Judges in 1991. He previously served contemporaneously as Municipal Judge in the cities of Kyle and Austin. He has served as a judge for 20 years and has presided over 30,000 felony cases in Travis County.

In 2006, Judge Coronado was the Democratic nominee for Justice of the Third Court of Appeals serving Travis and 23 other counties. He was voted "best qualified" by the majority of attorneys participating in the non-partisan judicial preference poll conducted by the State Bar of Texas. In the November election, he received 48.7% of the vote in an area larger than nine states. Jim received nearly 62% of the vote in his home county of Travis.

In the race for the 427th District Court, Judge Coronado again was voted "best qualified" for the bench in the Austin Bar Association's Judicial Preference Poll beating the Republican appointee by more than 3 to 1, garnering over 72% of the vote among the then three candidates.