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|image=Michael Keasler of TX.jpg
|image=Michael Keasler of TX.jpg
|birth_date=August 16, 1942
|birth_date=August 16, 1942
|birth_place[[Dallas]], Texas
|birth_place=[[Dallas]], Texas
|death_date=
|death_date=
|death_place=
|death_place=
|succeeded=Jesse F. McClure, III
|succeeded=Jesse F. McClure, III
|residence=Austin, Texas
|residence=Austin, Texas
|spouse=Nancy Lawson Keasler (married 1969)
|spouse=Nancy Lawson Keasler<br> (married 1969)
|children=Christina Keasler ___
|children=Christina Keasler ___
}}
}}
'''Michael Edward Keasler''', known as '''Mike Keasler''' (born August 16, 1942),<ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/59094/mike-keasler#.VJIwlsu_wfg|title=Judge Michael Keasler's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=December 17, 2014}}</ref> is a former judge of the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state court of last resort in criminal cases in [[Texas]]. His service extended from 1999 to 2020.
'''Michael Edward Keasler''', known as '''Mike Keasler''' (born August 16, 1942),<ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/59094/mike-keasler#.VJIwlsu_wfg|title=Judge Michael Keasler's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=December 17, 2014}}</ref> is a former judge of the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state court of last resort in criminal cases in [[Texas]]. His service extended from 1999 to 2020.
A [[Republican Party|Republican]], Keasler was first elected in 1998 and won second and third terms in 2004 and 2010.<ref name=ttribune/> He won re-nomination in the Republican [[primary]] on March 1, 2016, against Richard Davis, a former prosecutor and guest lecturer at [[Baylor University]] Law School]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas. Keasler polled 1,100,566 votes (56.9 percent) to Davis' 834,528 votes (43.1 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 1, 2016.</ref>
A [[Republican Party|Republican]], Keasler was first elected in 1998 and won second and third terms in 2004 and 2010.<ref name=ttribune/> He won re-nomination in the Republican [[primary]] on March 1, 2016, against Richard Davis, a former prosecutor and guest lecturer at [[Baylor University]] Law School in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas. Keasler polled 1,100,566 votes (56.9 percent) to Davis' 834,528 votes (43.1 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Republican primary election returns, March 1, 2016.</ref>
==Background==
==Background==