11 Facts About Sarah Eckhardt

Sarah Eckhardt was born on 1964 and is an American attorney and politician from the state of Texas.

Sarah Eckhardt is a member of the Texas Senate and a former county judge for Travis County, Texas.

Sarah Eckhardt attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.

Sarah Eckhardt earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from New York University in 1986, and joined the Atlantic Theater Company.

Sarah Eckhardt was a delegate to the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

Sarah Eckhardt became a paralegal in 1993, and enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, earning a Master of Public Affairs and Juris Doctor.

Sarah Eckhardt served as an assistant county attorney for Travis County from 1998 to 2005.

Sarah Eckhardt was elected to the Travis County Commissioners Court to represent Precinct 2 in the 2006 elections.

Sarah Eckhardt was the first woman elected to the serve as Travis County Judge.

In spring 2020, when Kirk Watson announced he would resign from the Texas Senate, Sarah Eckhardt announced that she would run in the special election to succeed him, and resigned as county judge in accordance with the Texas Constitution.

On December 4,2020, Sarah Eckhardt was sanctioned by the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct for remarks that she had made on January 24,2017, while presiding over a meeting of the Travis County Commissioners Court, and on September 27,2019, at the Texas Tribune Festival, during a panel discussion, recorded as:.