As a newly elected Hays County Court-at-Law judge has been settling into her role, some attorneys say they re concerned that her unusually defensive actions might be affecting a docket already facing pandemic-related challenges.
In her first month on the bench, County Court-at-Law No. 3 Judge Millie Thompson, a Democrat, has issued a criminal trespass warning to the judges she works with and their staffers, hired a private locksmith to change the locks at her office at the Hays County government center, and recused herself from several local attorneys cases.
She issued a cease and desist order, which doubled as a criminal trespass warning, in late January, instructing the judges and their staffers that your entry into my office is forbidden. Her decision to change the locks was atypical for a government official.