Juli A Mathew gets re-elected for a second term after defeating her Republican challenger Andrew Dornburg
First Indo-American woman Judge Juli A Mathew took oath for her second term as a Texas court judge on Monday from her Kerala home through video conferencing. After taking oath as a Fort Bend County Judge in Texas in the US for the second consecutive time, she told media in Kerala that she feels that this is the best job she ever had and she likes this profession the most.
When she migrated to the US years ago with her parents after discontinuing studies in a village school in Kerala, Juli Mathew never wanted to be a lawyer or judge. Some legal issues, which her father had faced in his business years ago, had sowed in her mind the first seeds of thought about the need to study law.
Juli Mathew later served as an advocate for 15 long years in the US and created history by becoming the first Indian-American woman to be elected to a judge’s bench there four years ago shattering the glass ceiling and defying the odds. As a Democrat, she first became Judge in 2018.[1]
A native of Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta district, Mathew took oath as a judge of the county court in Texas from her husband’s village house in Kasargod district in Kerala district via video conferencing on Monday. “It was my wish to swear in from my husband’s house this time. Otherwise, my in-laws could not have been able to partake in the ceremony. I am so happy that they and other family members could witness the oath-taking,” she told PTI on Tuesday.
Juli Mathew said when she became the judge for the first time four years ago, her parents were there to witness the ceremony and bless her. “It was such a beautiful memory,” the woman, in her mid-forties, said. She also recalled how her parents once tried to discourage her from pursuing legal studies as it was a “stressful” field. This time, her parents and elder daughter could not take part in the ceremony as they were away in the US.
Earlier, Juli Mathew, on Facebook, shared the video of her swearing-in before Judge Christian Becerra and the brief prayer meeting, held at the house verandah under the aegis of the local priest, which was attended by her husband, two younger daughters, in-laws, and other family members. In one video, she could be seen taking the oath by raising her right hand and keeping the left one on the Bible that her husband was holding.
A mother of three girls, Juli Mathew said she could not visit Vennikulam, her home village in Thiruvalla due to her other engagements. She still remembers the day she left for the US with her parents after discontinuing her studies in the fifth standard in a local English medium school there. She has been a resident of Fort Bend Texas for several years. When asked how she still maintains good fluency in Malayalam, Mathew said with a chuckle that she had almost forgotten the mother tongue at a point of time but successfully revived it through constant interactions with the community members.
Her husband is a businessman in the US. “My family—husband and parents are my pillars of support. I do all the house chores alone including feeding my children. With the immense support of the family that I am managing both personal and professional matters without fail,” she added.
The Judge and family would leave for the US on January 5.
Mathew was re-elected for a second term after defeating her Republican challenger Andrew Dornburg. She would continue to serve as presiding judge for a period of four years. She was voted the Administrative Judge for the County Courts by her peers and also heads the first Juvenile Intervention and Mental Health Court.
[with PTI inputs]
Reference:
[1] Judge Juli: Against All Odds She Became the First Indian American Woman Elected to the Bench – Apr 18, 2021, American Kahani
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She was a born Abrahamic from Kerala, left Bharat after primary schooling, amalgamated well along with her whole family with the Abrahamic American society, started living the modern Western lifesyle, and prudently chose became a woke Democrat.
well as an Abrahamic with the American society leading a typical, modern Western lifesyle,
Correction:
Kindly delete the last line para 1 and the whole para 2 above and continue as follows:
affiliation with the woke Democrats.
Even her present sojourn in Bharat symbolizes amniotic encapsulation in Kerala with umbilical cord extension to firm roots in the West. After all, she has honed and held aloft both her horns of feminism, viz, anti-misogyny and anti-patriarchy.
So, why boast about her Bharatiya origin sans Sanatani traits?
Good, much more good, if someone wrote about her achievements / merits / mind that she intends to do good to society or emulate Justice Nagaratnam (demonetization judgement fame) (she also has family rights to be supreme court judge) stating all NIA secrets should be discussed in parliament & then implemented i.e. including plans to do surgical strikes on Pakistan so that China, Pakistan & others go into alert mode !!