Lyda Ness Garcia, first elected in 2020 to the El Paso County 383rd District Court, a family court, faces a former district court judge, Mike Herrera, in the Democratic primary.

Herrera was judge of the 383rd from 2000 to 2020 when he opted to resign rather than run while dealing with an ethics controversy. In 2016, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a reprimand because he filed for divorce in 2012 and kept the case in his own court for four months, court records show.