Independent Candidate
Elect Charles B. "Chuck" Meyer
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3 · Montgomery County, Texas
Competence over Partisanship.
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3 · Montgomery County, Texas
Competence over Partisanship.
The moment came when I learned how our current Justice of the Peace got the job. The seat was filled by appointment over the Christmas holidays, without the position ever being opened to the public. The appointee was sponsored by the County Commissioner whose campaign he had supported by providing office space. No posting, no applications, no chance for anyone else in Precinct 3 to be considered. A court that belongs to all of us had been handed out as a political favor.
That fit a pattern I'd been watching for years. I've run for office before, both as a Republican and as a write-in Independent, and I saw judicial candidates campaigning on political positions that the rules of judicial ethics say a sitting judge must not publicly express. A judge who campaigns as a partisan has already told half the courtroom they're on the other side.
The people I think about are the ones who walk into a Justice of the Peace court: a tenant facing eviction, a small business owed a few thousand dollars, a parent dealing with a truancy notice, two neighbors who can't settle a fence dispute. Most of them don't have a lawyer. They deserve a judge who knows the law, listens, and calls it straight, like a good umpire. They shouldn't have to wonder whose team the judge is on.
So I decided to run as an Independent. Under Texas law, that meant giving up my own vote in the primary and gathering petition signatures under a tight deadline. I've spent forty years in the law, as a patent examiner, a judicial clerk, a prosecutor, a law professor, and a corporate general counsel. I've also spent years volunteering as a mediator right here in Montgomery County. I want to put that experience to work for my neighbors, and the only thing I want to owe anyone is fairness.
Like many South County residents, I'm originally from out of state. I was born in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in Upper Arlington, Ohio, where I went to the same high school as Jack Nicklaus, for the golfers out there, though he graduated well before my time. Mine was a typical Midwestern upbringing. My mother stayed home with us until I was in junior high, when she went back to work, and my father bought and sold grain and later became an agricultural commodities broker. We went to Mass regularly, and I served as an altar boy.
I started out as an engineer. After earning a systems engineering degree at the University of Virginia, where I met my wife, Monika, I went to work at the Pentagon. There I managed development of computer systems designed to warn our nation's leaders of a nuclear attack. That work taught me how much depends on getting the details right. At night I earned a master's degree in operations research at George Washington University, finishing after I'd moved to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner.
I went on to law school at night while continuing as a patent examiner. After graduating, I had the distinct honor of serving as a judicial law clerk for a Federal District Judge in Honolulu and for a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, which is where I learned what good judging looks like from the inside. My career took me from the Cleveland, Ohio office of Jones Day, a major international law firm, to Compaq in Houston, and then to BlackBerry, where I served as Chief Legal Officer during its early growth and later moved to England to lead its European operations.
Along the way I earned a graduate law degree at Oxford and taught law at the University of Houston and the University of Pittsburgh. I later founded my own practice, the Law Firm of Chuck Meyer, PLLC, where I served small businesses, entrepreneurs, and inventors. For seven years I also served as a contract assistant district attorney in Hardin County, handling every criminal appeal and criminal writ application for the county. Today I work as an expert reviewer evaluating the legal accuracy of AI-generated content, and in 2025 I earned a certificate in Generative AI for Business Applications from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, which goes to show you can still teach an old dog new tricks.
Monika Voigt Meyer and I have been married for 43 years, and we've had a home in The Woodlands since 1995. Together we raised three daughters: Kathryn, Emily, and Laura. We lost Emily in 2024. Kathryn lives and works in Washington, D.C., and Laura lives and works in London, England. So Monika and I are empty nesters, except for our two rescue pups: Churchill, who is mostly Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and Cashew, a terrier mix of various unknown origins. This is home.
Here, I've tried to give back where I can. I'm a graduate of Leadership Montgomery County, Class of 2020, and of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Citizens Academy. I served as a member and later Vice President of the Panther Creek Village Association, and I currently serve as Vice Chair of the Advisory Board of the Montgomery County Memorial Library System. I co-founded the Lone Star Rotary E-Club and served as its president, and I'm a member of The Woodlands Rotary Club.
I also volunteer as a mediator with the Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center, and I've mediated cases in the Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace court, helping neighbors settle disputes before they become lawsuits. And I've substitute taught in Conroe ISD schools, including working with dyslexic students, which has been some of the most rewarding work I've done.
I've had a career that took me around the world. What I want now is to bring everything I've learned back to the most local court we have, and to serve the people I live among.
Every person who walks into my courtroom will be treated the same, whether they have political ties, friends or family in law enforcement, or no connections at all. Cases will be decided on the facts and the law, nothing else.
Most people in a Justice of the Peace court represent themselves. I'll make sure the court explains its procedures in plain language, and I'll hold quarterly public education sessions on how to bring or defend a small claims case, so no one loses simply because they didn't understand the process.
Many disputes between neighbors, landlords and tenants, and small businesses can be settled faster and more cheaply through mediation. Drawing on my experience as a volunteer mediator, I'll encourage early referral of appropriate cases to the Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center.
Your time matters. I'll use practical technology, such as online scheduling and remote hearings where appropriate, and I want to explore evening or occasional Saturday sessions so working families don't have to miss a day's pay to appear in court.
Look for Charles B. "Chuck" Meyer, Independent, in the race for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3. Find your polling place and sample ballot at the Montgomery County Elections Office.
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