Jury Service / Walker County, TX

Jury Service

IF YOU HAVE BEEN SUMMONSED FOR JURY DUTY ON

6/10/25

REPORT TO THE WALKER COUNTY STORM SHELTER FOR SERVICE

455 TX-75, Huntsville, TX 77320

Please check the evening before for status updates by calling 936-436-4971

You will be reporting for Jury Service at the Walker County Courthouse 1100 University Avenue, Huntsville, Texas 77340

Click on eResponse to access the jury website to respond to your summons.

Walker County will NEVER ask for credit card or bank information when responding to jury service. If you are being asked to provide a credit card, please exit the site and verify the web address.

Please read your summons thoroughly before appearing and bring the summons with you when you report for duty.

Thank you for your service!

Juror Parking is at the Annex Building (2 blocks south from the Courthouse) or the Parking lot on Avenue M across from Sherwin Williams.

The District Clerk is in charge of the jury selection process for the Walker County District Courts and some County Court at Law cases. Jurors are randomly selected by the Jury Management System from the list provided by the Secretary of State compiled of current voter registration list in the county and from the residents of the county that are holders of a valid Texas driver license or a valid Texas personal identification card issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

This includes overseeing the arrangement of a jury, the selection of names for a jury and the payment of jurors.
This also includes all duties associated with a grand jury.

Answers to some of the questions you may have about jury service:

Please review the Texas Uniform Jury Handbook for exemptions and disqualifications from jury service.
You may request to be rescheduled only ONCE from service. If you choose to be rescheduled, you MUST appear at the rescheduled date. You will received a new summons in the mail with your rescheduled date.
If you have been called for jury service recently, you are not excused from another summons unless you actually served on a jury in the previous 6 months.
To be excused, exempted or to be disqualified you will need to contact this office or respond to the summons on the eResponse site. If you qualify for permanent exemption you may use the form at the bottom of this page.
If you are not a resident of Walker County, you are not eligible to serve as a juror in Walker County. Please contact our office at 936-436-4972.
If you have received the form for someone else, such as your child away at college or in the military or for someone who no longer lives with you or at your address, please have them respond using the eResponse site.

Model Petit Juror Summons and Questionnaire Model Grand Juror Summons and Questionnaire

GOVERNMENT CODE Sec. 62.0141.

FAILURE TO ANSWER JURY SUMMONS. In addition to any criminal penalty prescribed by law, a person summoned for jury service who does not comply with the summons as required by law or who knowingly provides false information in a request for an exemption or to be excused from jury service is subject to a contempt action punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000.

CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE, TITLE 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 122. JURORS RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT

Sec. 122.001. PROTECTION OF JURORS' EMPLOYMENT; JUROR'S RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT; NOTICE OF INTENT TO RETURN. (a) An employer may not discharge, threaten to discharge, intimidate, or coerce any permanent employee because the employee serves as a juror, or for the employee's attendance or scheduled attendance in connection with the service, in any court in the United States.

(b) An employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, intimidated, or coerced in violation of this section is entitled to return to the same employment that the employee held when summoned for jury service if the employee, as soon as practical after release from jury service, gives the employer actual notice that the employee intends to return.