Elma Salinas Ender
| Elma Teresa Salinas Ender | |
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| Judge of the 341st Judicial District of Texas | |
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In office August 31, 1983 – December 31, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | New position |
| Succeeded by | Beckie Palomo |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 11, 1953 Laredo, Webb County, Texas, USA |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | David Allen Ender (married 1986) |
| Children |
Jacqueline Christine Faas |
| Parents | Oscar David, Sr., and Elma Lopez Salinas |
| Residence | Laredo, Texas |
| Alma mater |
J. W. Nixon High School |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Ender is the first Hispanic woman to serve as a judge on a state district court in Texas. | |
Jacqueline Christine Faas
J. W. Nixon High School
University of Texas at Austin
Elma Teresa Salinas Ender (born August 11, 1953) is an attorney, who holds the record as the youngest woman and the first Hispanic female to serve as a state district court judge in the U.S. state of Texas. In the month of her thirtieth birthday, Ender was appointed by then Governor Mark Wells White as the first judge of the then newly established 341st Judicial District, based in her native Laredo in Webb County in south Texas. Salinas served for twenty-nine years in the judicial position prior to her retirement, announced in 2011 and effective on December 31, 2012. She hence set a record of longevity among the four Webb County justices serving in recent decades on the state courts, Districts 49, 111, 341, and 406, numbered in order of creation by the Texas Legislature.
Ender is the youngest of three children of Oscar David Salinas, Sr. (1924-1997), and the former Elma Lopez (1922-2016), a native of Hebbronville, Texas, who was employed for many years by the Webb County tax assessor's office. Judge Ender's two brothers are Oscar David Salinas, Jr., and Juan Alberto Salinas, Sr., and his wife, Janet.
Ender graduated in 1970 from J. W. Nixon High School in Laredo. In 1974, she received her undergraduate degree in accounting and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin. She obtained her law degree in 1978 from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio.
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