Sitting Justice of the Peace
Bastrop County Precinct 1 · since 2019
Presides over the court most residents actually use — Class C misdemeanors, civil claims up to $20,000, evictions, magistrate duties, marriages, and inquests.
Biography · Record
A Bastrop judge who already knows this docket.
Judge Cindy Allen is the sitting Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 in Bastrop County. She took office January 1, 2019, and is asking Precinct 1 to keep her on the bench on November 3.
Bastrop County, Texas
Judge Cindy Allen
When Cindy Allen first ran for this seat in 2018, she was a former municipal judge from Martindale in Caldwell County. She brought thirteen years in the Texas justice system with her: nine in juvenile justice, three in juvenile corrections, and one in adult probation.
Precinct 1 was an open seat that year, with Judge Donna Thomson leaving the bench. Allen won a four-person Republican primary runoff against former TABC executive director Sherry Cook, then defeated Democrat Dock Jackson in November with 56 percent of the vote. In 2022 she won a second term with 58 percent against Democrat Dayna Beck.
That is not a résumé assembled for a flyer. It is the path of someone who has already sat as a judge, already learned a county docket, and already been hired twice by the people who use this court.
Studio portrait
Judge Cindy Allen
Timeline
From first campaign to this ballot
2018
Elected Justice of the Peace
Won a competitive Republican runoff, then defeated Democrat Dock Jackson in November with 56 percent of the vote (4,536–3,561).
2019
Took the bench
Assumed office January 1, 2019, succeeding Judge Donna Thomson and beginning service as Precinct 1’s justice of the peace.
2022
Re-elected by Precinct 1
Won a second term with 58 percent against Democrat Dayna Beck (4,893–3,530).
2026
Republican nominee
Advanced from the March 3 Republican primary and faces Democrat Tamera Peterson McIntyre on the November 3 general-election ballot.
What she brought to the bench
Experience before the title, and after it.
Former municipal judge
Martindale, Caldwell County
Came to the 2018 campaign with courtroom experience as a municipal judge — not as a first-day-on-the-job experiment.
Juvenile justice, corrections & probation
13 years in the Texas justice system before taking this bench
Nine years in juvenile justice, three in juvenile corrections, and one in adult probation — work that teaches judgment, process, and what happens after a case is called.
Campaign facts on her 2018 and 2022 races are drawn from contemporaneous Austin American-Statesman election coverage and public election results. This page is political advertising, not a county biography.