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Watkins won the 2006 district attorney election over prosecutor Toby Shook in an election cycle that saw Democrats every elected office on the ballot, including all judicial seats. In 2002, Watkins ran for district attorney against incumbent Republican Bill Hill and lost. Watkins began his legal career working in the offices of the Dallas city attorney and the Dallas County Public Defender's office and later went into private practice. He was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. degree as part of the 1994 inaugural graduating class of the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. Carter High School of Dallas, Watkins graduated from Prairie View A&M University in 1990 with a B.A. Education Ĭraig Marcus Watkins was born in Dallas on November 16, 1967. He became the first elected African-American district attorney in Texas when he was elected in 2006.

Craig Marcus Watkins (Novem– December 12, 2023) was an American lawyer who was the district attorney for Dallas County, Texas from 2007 to 2015.