Mike Jones
Democratic · TX · Dallas County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4, Place 1
Dallas County justice of the peace since 2019, a former Glenn Heights mayor pro tem, and a commercial real estate broker. He backs youth diversion programs, a paperless and efficient court, and mediation and eviction-relief programs.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 3 records
Received a county audit of his court for April to September 2025 that found no reportable problems.
July 30, 2026
Source: dallascounty.org
Signed, with all 10 Dallas County justices of the peace, a COVID-19 order pausing evictions for unpaid rent. Cases filed after March 27, 2020, could not go to trial, and tenants could not be removed, until June 15, 2020.
May 19, 2020
Source: jw.com
Had his court's cash handling faulted by the Dallas County Auditor after a surprise cash count. The auditor found 132 mailed check payments worth $9,705 that had not been logged or deposited on time.
February 12, 2020
Source: dallascounty.org
Track record — Legal Competence
Legal Competence · 4 unfavorable
Received a county audit of his court for fiscal year 2024. It found fines and fees charged wrongly on 11 dismissed cases, and a court trust account not balanced against county books since September 2022.
June 10, 2025Unfavorable on Legal Competence
Source: dallascounty.org
Received a county audit of his court for fiscal year 2022. Staff used the judge's signature stamp without clerk initials in 13 of 20 closed cases checked, and the court could not provide 15 of 40 dismissed case files.
October 10, 2024Unfavorable on Legal Competence
Source: dallascounty.org
Received a county audit of his court for fiscal year 2021. It found 2,333 civil cases filed online from August 2021 to January 2022 that the court had not accepted or rejected; all were handled by August 2022.
June 13, 2023Unfavorable on Legal Competence
Source: dallascounty.org
Received a county audit of his court for fiscal year 2020. It found 1,022 closed or paid-off cases that still had active arrest warrants, all recalled by August 2021. It also found 1,912 dismissed cases never marked as dismissed in the records system.
December 22, 2021Unfavorable on Legal Competence
Source: dallascounty.org
Past race Mike Jones ran in:
- Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. 4, Place 1 · November 3, 2026 · Dallas County, Texas · incumbent