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The Collin County indigent-defense attorney-qualification requirements for the district, county, and juvenile appointment lists: majority-judge (or MHMC-director) approval, the twice-yearly July 1–14 and December 1–31 application windows, the minimum felony-list standards (two years' criminal-law experience, Collin County residence/office/80%-practice, TBLS certification or 10 hours annual criminal-law CLE, TIDC practice-time reporting by October 15, no public discipline within five years, office capabilities, and three Collin County bar-association reference letters), and the graduated list tiers (state jail/third-degree through the higher felony lists).
Texas > Collin County > the district, county, and juvenile courts' appointed-counsel lists — the county's indigent-defense attorney-qualification standards administered by the district judges (and the MHMC director for the mental-health list) through the Indigent Defense Office
PROCESS: "Applications for all Non-MHMC felony lists will be reviewed by the district judges and decided by majority vote," while the mental-health/MHMC felony list is decided by the MHMC director; "Applications must be submitted during one of two periods each calendar year: July 1 through July 14; and December 1 through December 31," and the judges may limit list size to ensure effective representation and list integrity. MINIMUM FELONY-LIST STANDARDS: an attorney must (1) provide accurate and complete application information; (2) be a licensed attorney in good standing with the State Bar of Texas; (3) "Have at least two (2) years of experience practicing criminal law"; (4) "Be a resident of Collin County, maintain a principal office in Collin County, or have at least 80% of the attorney's practice in Collin County"; (5) be TBLS-certified in criminal law OR complete at least ten hours of criminal-law CLE each year (new applicants in the preceding calendar year), filing an annual certificate with the Indigent Defense Office (one-year carryover of excess CLE); (6) submit by October 15 a TIDC-website practice-time statement for the prior October 1–September 30; (7) not have received public discipline within five years; (8) maintain email, fax, and voice capability; (9) have the means to produce typed motions and orders; (10) promptly notify the local administrative district judge of any disqualifying matter; and (11) "Provide three (3) letters of reference from members of the Collin County Bar Association or Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association." GRADUATED LISTS: additional eligibility applies per list (an attorney may hold more than one) — the State Jail and Third Degree Felony list and the higher graduated felony lists each carry escalating TBLS-certification-or-experience thresholds. VARIANTS: parallel Requirements govern county-court (misdemeanor) and juvenile appointment lists, with their own experience and CLE thresholds appropriate to the case type.
Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed verbatim (text layer; custody sha in the crawl ledger); own-site-only; the district requirements are composed in full with the county (caa-requirements-county) and juvenile (caa-requirements-juvenile) variants noted — each governs its own list; undated on face — no effective date claimed.
G-2026-045-SC required anyone using generative AI to disclose it on the face of the filing and add a scripted certification, on pain of striking, denial of relief or monetary penalties. Rule 2.515(d)(2) and AOSC26-12 preempted it on June 15, 2026, so it could not be enforced — and by August 16, 2026 the Seventh Circuit had removed the order from its published register (no rescission instrument appears there). BenchPath holds the hashed capture as the historical record.
3 verbatim requirements on divisional requirements in ANDREW L. SIEGEL's division.