 Governor Abbott had a rich array of highly qualified conservative appellate jurists to choose from.He appointed J. Brett Busby, who had lost his 2018 re-election bid as an incumbent on the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston, to succeed Phil Johnson.Johnson won renomination in the Republican primary election held on March 4, 2014, by defeating an intraparty challenger, Sharon Sue McCally (born 1960) of Houston, the Place 2 judge of the Texas Fourteenth District Court of Appeals.