The Hon. Charles L. Vanover is a judge for the Tarrant County Criminal Court No. 8 in Texas. He was elected to the bench on November 4, 2014.
Prior to his election, Vanover was an assistant district attorney with the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, a position to which he was named in 2003. He supplemented his legal practice with service as a staff judge advocate with the Texas State Guard.
Vanover earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University in 1990. He spent the next decade working as an officer with the Department of Public Safety at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Then, in 2002, he completed a J.D. at Texas A&M University School of Law.
Raised in Tarrant County, Vanover attended Grapevine High School.
He is registered as a Republican.
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