The Austin American-Statesman covered Mindy Montford’s recent overwhelming victory in the Austin Bar Association poll. Montford received more than twice as many votes as her nearest competition.

From the Statesman article:

Lawyers who voted in an Austin Bar Association poll released Monday favor Amy Clark Meachum, a civil lawyer, over Judge Jan Patterson, and they favor criminal defense lawyer Mindy Montford over prosecutor Karen Sage and two others in separate District Court races. Both are among the contested Travis County judicial elections on the March 2 party primary ballot.

The Austin Bar Association poll drew responses from 946 lawyers who voted online and by paper ballot from February 1 through February 12 in the local contested judicial elections. Not every poll respondent voted in all of the races. A pdf file with the complete poll results is here: 2010 Judicial Preference Poll Final Results.pdf

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Montford, 39, and Sage, 44, are running along with criminal defense lawyers Leonard Martinez, 62, and Eve Schatelowitz Alcantar, 38, in the Democratic primary for the 299th District Court. Judge Charlie Baird is not running for re-election to the felony criminal court.

In the bar association poll, 60%, or 433 of the lawyers who voted in that race favored Montford. Sage was favored by 209 lawyers, or 29% of poll respondents. Martinez drew 65 votes and Schatelowitz Alcantar drew 14.

The entire Statesman article can be read here.