 Hello, my name is Danny Rogers, and I am privileged to serve as the Chief Judge of the Fort Worth Municipal Court. Here in Fort Worth, our municipal court judges are all appointed by our City Council and Mayor to two-year terms. Currently, we have 10 full-time municipal court judges as well as eight part-time judges. Sometimes, people want to know, how do you become a judge? Well, all of us are attorneys. We're licensed by the State Bar of Texas. And the minimum requirement is that you've worked as an attorney for two years. All of us have met those requirements. And then every two years, our appointment is up for renewal or review by the City Council. And the City Council goes through a process and has reappointed us for some of us for several times. I've been privileged to serve the City of Fort Worth as a judge for 25 years. Many of those years, I worked as a magistrate, primarily as a magistrate, which meant that I physically worked in the jail. Now the judges, jail judges, what I was called, called myself in those days. And what our responsibility is, is to review all of their arrest by the Fort Worth Police Department at that time for probable cause and to make determinations of what bond, if any, should be set and what the conditions should be, that process. And that's a different part of what we do. Typically, all judges are magistrates. And we have judges that serve in that role now. So our judges are all trained to do that work, as well as to work here at the courthouse. At the courthouse, our primary jurisdiction is Class C misdemeanor, traffic tickets, city ordinance violations, that sort of thing. And we do everything from plea dockets, which is an initial appearance by someone, to a walk-in docket where someone comes in and just needs to talk to a judge about a ticket, to trials before a judge and trials before a jury. So our days are very busy. We have a lot of administrative work that goes with that as well. Parts of our operation run 24-7-365. And that would primarily be the magistration I talked about earlier. It is a real privilege to serve. We have a cross-section of folks that serve as judges, both full-time and part-time. There's a total of 18 of us. What I would really want to get across to you is that if you get a ticket in the city of Fort Worth, you know, there are several pages of information attached to that. But I would say the most important part is that you reach out to the court one way or another. You come to the courthouse here at 1000 Throckport and Street or you can come to us through our virtual court. You can get information about that on our website, on the citation itself or addresses and phone numbers of how you can contact the court. If you will come and see us one way or another, then we will help you in every way that we can to move that case forward, hopefully to resolve it in a way that you feel is fair and that you've had an opportunity to be heard. So I would also say that it's very important that you be heard. You have an opportunity to come and speak with a judge or a clerk or whoever it's necessary to help you understand what has happened and to provide you all the rights that the law provides for you. If you will come and see us, we will move it forward and we will get this hopefully taken care of quickly so you don't have to worry about it or carry it. So we hope that you will come see us. We want to help you to walk through this process with you, answer any questions that you have about the case. And remember, it's just a Class C. It's a traffic ticket. It's not about going to jail. It's about coming to court, resolving the case in a way that you get heard and justice is served. So thank you very much for watching.