Career
Keasler polled 1,100,566 votes (569 percent) to Davis" 834,528 votes (431 percent). He now faces in the November 8 general election Robert Burns, who received 957,162 votes running unopposed in the Democratic primary. A resident of the capital city of Austin, Texas, Keasler received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas and his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.
In 1969, Keasler was named assistant district attorney for Dallas County, a position which he held until 1981, when he was appointed judge of the 292nd District Court in Dallas by then Governor Bill Clements.
He remained on the 292nd trial court until 1998. From 1990 to 1997, Keasler was the dean of continuing judicial education in Texas.
In 1993, he instituted the Texas College of Advanced Judicial Studies. Since 1992, he has been a faculty member at the National Judicial College.
Keasler lost a bid in 1996 for the Republican nomination for the Court of Criminal Appeals but rebounded in the 1998 Republican runoff election, in which he defeated intra-party challenger, Vicki Barbee Isaacks (born 1957) of Denton County, 130,764 (628 percent) to 77,575 (372 percent).
In the general election, Keasler unseated the Democrat incumbent, Charles F. "Charlie" Baird of Austin, 1,889,069 (54 percent) to 1,611,538 (46 percent). In 2004, Keasler defeated another Democrat, J. R. Molina, 3,990,315 (579 percent) to 2,906,720 (421) percent. In 2010, Judge Keasler defeated the Democrat Keith Hampton (born 1960) of Austin, 2,906,012 (605 percent) to 1,759,365 (36.6 percent.
Another 139,299 votes (29 percent) went to the Libertarian Party candidate, Robert Ravee Virasin (born 1972) of Dallas.
