colleagues at the 19th Judicial District. She wrote that she regretted a campaign video in which she appeared alongside a man in a prison jumpsuit who bragged White was about to send him home.

White delivered the letter after an unexplained three-month hiatus from the bench. She wrote that she understood why some believed the video implied she would treat defendants leniently, and that it could damage public respect for the judiciary.

Judge Trudy White apologizes to colleagues for 2014 campaign video State District Judge Trudy White, who returned to the bench in February following an unexplained three-month hiatus, has apologized to her col…

"To the extent that my conduct has put our court in a negative light, I am truly sorry,” White wrote. A woman in White’s office who refusedindividual tines of the intake grate have end tips which are spaced from the aft end of the intake grate by a pass-through gap. Thus, when weeds and debris become intertwined between the tines, the weeds are able to slide rearwardly along the tines and through the gap while the jet drive is operating. In this manner, the problem of clogging has been reduced. However, the size of the gap between the end tips of the tines and the aft end of the weed grate plate limits the size and amount of weeds that can pass through the gap and through the jet drive. Thus, large clumps of weeds which have a thickness greater than the gap between the tines and the aft end of the intake grate