Greg Willis
Republican · TX · Collin County Criminal District Attorney
Greg Willis is the Collin County Criminal District Attorney and a graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. He created the Burden to Blessing diversion program and a prosecutor-led opioid treatment diversion program.
Where Greg Willis stands, based on their records
Supports
Public Safety and Crime Control (4 records), Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties (2 records)
Track record
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 4 support
Announced a jury’s 38-year murder sentence for Gregory Noah Honesty in a fentanyl-death case handled by his office.
July 15, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: cbsnews.com
Asked county commissioners to authorize a federal grant application for his office’s opioid treatment program. It offered treatment instead of prosecution.
May 5, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: eagenda.collincountytx.gov
His office graduated nine participants from the Path 2 pretrial diversion program. It offered first-time, nonviolent offenders life-skills classes, mentors and job placement.
September 6, 2018Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nbcdfw.com
Asked the Texas Rangers to independently investigate a McKinney police officer’s restraint of a teenage girl at a pool party.
June 15, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: cbsnews.com
Track record — Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 2 support
Asked county commissioners to authorize a federal grant application for his office’s opioid treatment program. It offered treatment instead of prosecution.
May 5, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: eagenda.collincountytx.gov
His office graduated nine participants from the Path 2 pretrial diversion program. It offered first-time, nonviolent offenders life-skills classes, mentors and job placement.
September 6, 2018Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nbcdfw.com
Track record — General
General · 5 records
Decided not to seek the death penalty against convicted serial killer Billy Chemirmir in Collin County, saying he had already been tried three times in Dallas County.
August 24, 2023
Source: nbcdfw.com
County insurance funded a $1.75 million settlement of a 2022 employee lawsuit naming Willis. He denied the claims. Plaintiffs retracted allegations other than retaliation.
April 18, 2023
Source: nbcdfw.com
Was declared elected to another term as Collin County Criminal District Attorney without an opponent in the November 2022 election.
November 8, 2022
Source: collincountytx.gov
Filed a motion asking an outside prosecutor to handle the Ken Paxton investigation, citing personal and business ties.
April 20, 2015
Source: texastribune.org
Won election as Collin County Criminal District Attorney with 110,193 votes (73.31%), defeating Rafael De La Garza.
November 2, 2010
Source: collincountytx.gov
Past race Greg Willis ran in:
- Collin County Criminal District Attorney · November 3, 2026 · Collin County, Texas · incumbent