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Women often enter judiciary positions through the trial courts, particularly county courts, because they see these courts as a stepping-stone to higher judicial office. As the eligibility pool of experienced female Hispanic lawyers expands, Hispanic women are increasingly taking seats on trial court benches. What political and demographic shifts have fostered this change? Does the intersectionality of ethnicity, class, and gender play any role in shaping Hispanic women's run for the judiciary? I examine the political and personal experiences of three Hispanic women who ran for and won judgeships at the county court-at-law level in Bexar County, Texas. My findings suggest that Hispanic women experience, and often overcome, the triple barriers of ethnicity, class, and gender as they struggle for political incorporation via the judiciary, particularly at the county court level.

A review essay on books by (1) Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory (Cambridge: South End, 2001); (2) Vicki L. Ruiz (Ed), Las Obreras: Chicana Politics of Work and Family (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2000); (3) Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature (Berkeley, CA: U California Press, 2000); & (4) Pablo Vila, Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier (Austin, TX: U Texas Press, 2000). 22 References.