Harris County’s 280th District Court Judge Barbara Stalder will face a challenge to her incumbency in the Democratic primary from Damiane “Dianne” Curvey, a family law solo practitioner.

Barbara J. Stalder is the presiding judge of the 280th family violence protective order court. Stalder was elected in 2018. She made a career of addressing family violence beginning in 1991 as a community volunteer, 12 years before passing the bar.