Dress code of the Ector County Courts at Law for all persons entering the courtroom in civil and criminal matters: required attire for men and women and prohibited clothing; removal or refused admittance may result in a warrant for failure to appear (criminal) or a default judgment (civil); court personnel decide what attire is appropriate.
Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Ector County > County Court at Law, County Court at Law No. 2.
[seal] BROOKE HENDRICKS Judge, County Court At Law CHRISTOPHER M. CLARK Judge, County Court at Law #2 THE COUNTY COURTS AT LAW OF ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS DRESSCODE AT ALL FUTURE DOCKET CALLS, HEARINGS, AND TRIAL DATES, THE FOLLOWING DRESS CODE SHALL BE OBSERVED: THE ECTOR COUNTY COURTS AT LAW WILL OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING DRESS CODE, WHICH APPLIES TO ALL PERSONS WHO ARE REQUIRED TO ENTER THE COURTROOM, FOR ANY AND ALL CIVIL AND CRIMINAL MATTERS: MEN ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR: LONG PANTS, A COLLARED SHIRT (must be tucked in), SHOES AND SOCKS. (The use of a tie and /or suit jacket are optional). WOMEN ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR: SHOES (flip flops are not permitted) AND ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: A DRESS, PANTS OR A SKIRT WITH A BLOUSE OR CASUAL DRESS SHIRT. THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF CLOTHING ARE NOT PERMITTED, AND IF WORN WILL BE GROUNDS FOR REFUSING ADMITTANCE TO, OR REMOVAL FROM, THE COURTROOM: Hats (applies to both men and women) Flip flops (applies to both men and women) Halter tops/tube tops T-shirts/muscle shirts See-Through tops Shorts Ripped jeans Baggy pants that fall below your waist and expose underwear Clothing that exposes midriff Pajamas/sweat pants Clothing that depicts or promotes violence, sex acts, drug use, illegal or inappropriate activity or profanity REMOVAL FROM THE COURTROOM, OR BEING REFUSED ADMITTANCE, MAY RESULT IN A WARRANT BEING ISSUED FOR FAILURE TO APPEAR AT YOUR HEARING (in a criminal matter) OR A DEFAULT JUDGMENT BEING ENTERED AGAINST YOU (in a civil matter). ALL DECISIONS ON THE APPROPRIATENESS OF ATTIRE WILL BE MADE BY COURT PERSONNEL. [signature] Brooke Hendricks- Judge, County Court at Law [signature] Christopher M. Clark Judge, County Court at Law #2
[seal] BROOKE HENDRICKS Judge, County Court At Law CHRISTOPHER M. CLARK Judge, County Court at Law #2 THE COUNTY COURTS AT LAW OF ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS DRESSCODE AT ALL FUTURE DOCKET CALLS, HEARINGS, AND TRIAL DATES, THE FOLLOWING DRESS CODE SHALL BE OBSERVED: THE ECTOR COUNTY COURTS AT LAW WILL OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING DRESS CODE, WHICH APPLIES TO ALL PERSONS WHO ARE REQUIRED TO ENTER THE COURTRO
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/915a7c45098c7390-county-courts-at-law-dress-code-pdf.pdf (72,172 bytes, sha256 915a7c45098c7390febb5ce53dc44aa71213c54dff3d0b2629205de68841e50c; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/298/County-Courts-At-Law-Dress-Code-PDF), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Brooke Hendricks (County Court at Law) and Christopher M. Clark (County Court at Law #2); undated.