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Chari Kelly
On the ballot for · 6-year term
This race is on every Texas ballot.
Background
- Now
- Justice, Third Court of Appeals (Place 3), State of Texas, since January 1, 2019
- Before
- Felony prosecutor, Travis and Comal counties; Assistant Attorney General, Civil Medicaid Fraud Division, Texas Attorney General's Office; Captain, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army (defense attorney at Fort Hood and Joint Base San Antonio)
- Work
- Justice, Third Court of Appeals; licensed attorney in Texas (State Bar of Texas No. 24057939, licensed 05/04/2007); practice areas: Appellate: Civil, Appellate: Criminal
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In their own words
Quoted from Chari Kelly’s own official campaign material — what the campaign says the candidate will do. Some campaigns write about their candidate in the third person; the wording is theirs either way. These are the candidate’s claims: PlainDocket doesn’t check, rate or endorse them, and every candidate in a race is quoted the same way, from the same kind of source.
“Since being elected to the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals in 2018, Justice Kelly has been a committed defender of the Constitution—ensuring fair trials and upholding justice.”
“She later worked on behalf of the State of Texas suing pharmaceutical companies that had defrauded the Medicaid program, recovering millions of dollars on behalf of taxpayers, all the while teaching trial advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law.”
“She was named the 2023 Mentor of the Year at both the local and state level for her mentorship of young lawyers trying to find their way in the legal profession.”
“She created and supported fundraisers for unhoused and low-income women in need of legal, social, and medical services.”
Where the money comes from
$58,606$58,606 in total receipts, through Jun 30, 2026 — Search the Texas Ethics Commission for Chari Kelly's filings raised, through Jun 30, 2026
The filing reports a total but doesn’t break it down by source, so there is nothing to chart here.
Official filing:
- This figure is the candidate's own campaign account. Any committee the Texas Ethics Commission records as supporting them is listed separately and is NOT added in — money moved between the two is reported by both, so a combined total would count it twice.
- These lines don't add up to total receipts — receipts also include transfers, loans and refunds, which aren't donations.
- Filing is periodic (semiannual, 30-day, or 8-day pre-election reports). The figure above sums every report filed for the current 2025-2026 election cycle, through the most recent period shown — it can be several months stale depending on where a candidate is in the filing cycle, and excludes activity from any earlier cycle.
- The Texas Ethics Commission and the Federal Election Commission define "total receipts" differently — Texas Ethics Commission figures should never be compared directly against a federal candidate's FEC figures.
Official records
We searched the registries below and found no record for Chari Kelly.
Checked 28 July 2026: Texas Legislature (impeachment records) · Texas Ethics Commission (final orders) · State Bar of Texas (attorney discipline) · Texas State Securities Board (enforcement orders). The same registries are searched for every candidate in a race, and each entry describes only what the record itself states — including how it ended. We publish no allegations and no news coverage.
- The Texas Ethics Commission is required by law to keep dismissed complaints, and findings it treats as technical or minor, confidential — so no result there means no publicly-issued final order, not that no complaint was ever filed.
- A State Bar profile shows public disciplinary history the Bar publishes online; older judgments are held by its disciplinary counsel and aren't in that profile.
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