Williamson County commissioners have approved a resolution asking the Legislature to establish a new district court and a new court-at-law for the county.
District courts in the county had a 20% increase in case filings between 2015 and 2019, according to a study by the state office of court administration.
Ronald Morgan,
the county s director of district court administration, presented the study to the Commissioners Court on Tuesday. It said there were 7,446 cases filed in Williamson County courts in 2015 and 8,909 cases filed in 2019. We have seen many changes in the past 10 years as the Williamson County population has soared, 425th District Judge Betsy Lambeth told the commissioners. We ve gone from a mostly rural community to an urban community and our justice system needs to grow with it.