Bondurant sworn in as associate judge
hearing CPS cases in six-county area

By: Sherrie Williams
Alyce Bondurant, a 1972 graduate of Iowa Park High School, was recently sworn in as the Associate Judge of the North Texas Child Protective Court.

Alyce will hear all cases in a six county area for Child Protective Services. She explained any case in which the state is involved in any of the six counties she will hear.

Her office is based in Wichita Falls, but she will travel to the other five counties to hear cases.

The position is new for this judicial region which is out of Fort Worth, but there are 15 others in the state. However, the closest to this area is located in Pampa and Lubbock.

When asked if it would be hard to spend her days listening to cases involving children, she said, “Of course it will be hard but I have been heading this way with my career. I was in private practice with O.N. Newman in Iowa Park 17 years and then spent the past seven years with the Texas Attorney General as managing attorney for child support cases in14 counties,” she said.

Alyce took the job on August 18, and was sworn in by Judge Towery in Henrietta on August 20.

A court room and small office is being built on the fourth floor of the Wichita County Court House, but until then Alyce said they are “floating.”

Alyce is a lifetime resident of Iowa Park, except for the time she was away at school. She earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees at Midwestern State University and her law degree at Texas Tech.

It would be only natural that she enjoy a job that would include travel, since travling is her hobby. But, she says she enjoys traveling much further than the day trips that takes her to other counties.

She said she has traveled to some interesting places, but the most exciting trip she recalls is when her parents took her and her sister, June, to New Zealand and Australia.