[cinives]

And this is another reason their $$$ pay does not tell the whole story:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1761357/posts?page=1

[TKDietz]

That article is about a "County Judge." In most states a county judge isn't really a law judge that hears court cases. He's an administrator. You can think of them more as the "county mayor." A county judge in Texas will preside at county commissioner meetings and he's responsible for seeing that the county budget is spent on what it's supposed to be spent on. I don't live in Texas but we have county judges that do the same thing in my state. As far as I know most county judges aren't even lawyers. The one in my county certainly isn't a lawyer. I cannot recall my county ever having an attorney in that position. Our last county judge was a retired businessman that didn't even have a college degree.