Ronnie Earle, Travis County’s district attorney for more than three decades, has announced that he will not seek re-election next year.

“I want to thank the people of Travis County for entrusting me with the responsibility of this office to see that justice is done,” Earle, a Democrat, says in a written statement issued Dec. 14 by his office. “At the end of my term we will have had a 32-year partnership, because doing justice is the job of the community itself.”