Emboldened by their party’s 2018 general election victory in which candidates took eight seats away the from the GOP on the all-Republican Fifth Court of Appeals, three sitting Dallas Democratic state district judges are already announcing planned runs for the appellate court in 2020.

The challengers include Dennise Garcia, judge of 303rd Family District Court, who will run for the seat currently held by Justice Bill Whitehill; Bonnie Goldstein, judge of the 44th Civil District Court, who will run for the seat currently held by Justice Ada Brown; and Craig Smith of the 192nd Civil District Court, who will run for the seat currently held by Justice David Bridges.