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Judge John B. Peyton presides over County Court at Law #2 in Dallas County. This is a civil trial court with unlimited monetary jurisdiction.
The County Courts at Law are among the busiest trial courts in the state with each court receiving more than three thousand new cases each year. A feature of the county courts at law, which makes them attractive to litigants, is that they use six person juries as opposed to twelve person juries in state courts.
Per the Dallas County Management Report for the first quarter of fiscal 2006 (October, November, December 2005) County Court at Law had the highest number of dispositions with the lowest cost per disposition. Judge Peyton strives to be a good steward of the taxpayer’s money, while always keeping an open door policy with those he serves.
Judge Peyton has presided over County Court at Law #2 since September 2000, having been unanimously appointed by the Dallas County Commissioners Court to fill a vacancy existing at that time. The Judge is a native Dallasite having been born at St. Paul Hospital in 1942. He currently resides in Dallas with his wife of 25 years, Tina, and daughters Whitney and Beverly.
Judge Peyton graduated from Dallas Public Schools and subsequently received his B.A. degree and J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University. He practiced law for over thirty years before taking the bench. He also served as assistant city attorney for the City of Dallas, and as an Assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Judge Peyton has further served as both a special judge and a court master in the Dallas County Probate Courts.
Judge Peyton is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association, the Rotary Club of Dallas, a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a member of the College of the State Bar. Her serves on the Dallas Can Academy Advisory Board and is also a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, as well as the National Rifle Association.
Judge Peyton has received consistently high rankings from the lawyers of the Dallas Bar Association in their various judicial polls. He won the recent preference poll overwhelmingly by a margin of almost three to one over his opponent. He is endorsed as qualified by the Committee for a Qualified Judiciary. |