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| module         = | module2        = | module3        = | module4        = | module5        = | footnotes      = }} Christina Julianne Bostick born June 9, 1985 is a candidate for Judge of the Howard County Orphans' Court in the State of Maryland and will appear on the ballot in the 2022 gubernatorial elections.

{{short description|Lawyer and Politician}} Christina Julianne Bostick (born: June 9, 1985) is a candidate for Mayor Candidate for Judge of the Howard County Orphans Court, Texas and will appear on the ballot in the 2023 municipal elections. Prior to his candidacy, Hollins was an American Democratic Party official and personal injury attorney who served as the interim Harris County Clerk and the Chief Elections Officer of Harris County, Texas from May to November 2020.

Education
After graduating from River Hill High School in Clarksville, Maryland, Christina attended the historic Spelman College where she earned a B.A. in English. In 2007, Christina graduated from Spelman College on the. Following graduation, Christina went on to earn a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center as a Keller Foundation Scholarship recipient. While attending Georgetown, Christina served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives. ref>

Ober Kaler
Formerly, Christina spent a year working with Baltimore Employment Attorney Neil Duke, the Municipalities and Employment Law Group Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, P.A. Christina worked with matters involving defense of municipalities, complex civil litigation, and labor and employment disputes. Christina Christina was also previously employed at Shulman Rogers where she became a results-driven litigator and proved to be perceptive, reliable, anticipatory, well prepared, and strategic. Using her persuasive writing skills and effective communication tactics as well as analytical, critical thinking, argumentation, and legal comprehension skills, she handled significant responsibility on cases involving everything from drafting and negotiating contracts to arguing on behalf of clients and managing a full litigation caseload.

Shulman Rogers
Hollins is the Vice Chair of the Texas Democratic Party and a personal injury attorney. Hollins' early professional experience includes positions with Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company where he operated as a management consultant.

Political Career
Christina is a candidate for Judge of the Howard County, Maryland Orphans Court.

Howard County Human Trafficking Prevention Council
Christina is a member of Howard Country Human Trafficking Prevention Council

Television Appearances
In November 2020, Hollins appeared on various national and local news programs to discuss the Harris County elections, including, but not limited to MSNBC Programming. Following his tenure as Clerk, Hollins continued making national and local news appearances, including, but not limited to KTRK-TV (ABC);  Ayman; and Zerlina.

Education
After graduating from Hightower High School in Missouri City, Texas, Hollins received a full-ride scholarship to the historic Morehouse College where he earned entry into Phi Beta Kappa and a B.A. in political science. In 2007, Hollins graduated from Morehouse magna cum laude. Following graduation, Hollins went on to earn a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

General career
Hollins is the Vice Chair of the Texas Democratic Party and a personal injury attorney. Hollins' early professional experience includes positions with Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company where he operated as a management consultant.

Political career
On June 1, 2020, Hollins was appointed as interim county clerk of Harris County, Texas by a 3-2, party-line vote of the Harris County Commissioners Court. His predecessor, Diane Trautman, resigned from the position citing ill health. At 34 years old, Hollins is the youngest person to have ever held the position and is also the first African American to hold the position.

Obama Administration
In 2009, Hollins was chosen out of a pool of more than 6,000 applicants to serve as one of approximately 100 summer interns during the Presidency of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States. As a White House intern, Hollins worked in the Office of Presidential Personnel which oversees the selection process for presidential appointments. Prior to serving as the Harris County Clerk, Hollins regarded his White House internship experience as the most memorable of his professional career.

Clerk for Harris County, Texas
On May 16, 2020, the Commissioners Court for Harris County, Texas voted to appoint Hollins as Interim Clerk for Harris County by a 3-2, party-line vote after his predecessor, Diane Trautman, resigned from the position citing ill health. At 34 years old, Hollins was the youngest person to have ever held the position, as well as the first African American to hold the position.

The Office of the Harris County Clerk is not only responsible for administering permits and other licenses or incorporation documents, but also responsible for managing all election responsibilities as the Harris County Elections Administrator. As Elections Administrator, Hollins attracted national attention for his staunch commitment to voting rights and to eliminating the remnants of Jim Crow voting restrictions for the Harris County elections system. Hollins also submitted a plan to separate the responsibilities of overseeing the election from the Office of the Harris County Clerk into a new, separate appointed position: Harris County Elections Administrator. His efforts in that arena resulted in Isabel Longoria, longtime community organizer and special adviser on voting rights to Hollins, being sworn in to the office via virtual ceremony on November 18, 2020. Longoria was the first to hold the position.

2020 U.S. Presidential Election and Texas Voting Restrictions
Hollins was vocal in opposing Texas governor Greg Abbott's decision to allow only one drop-box per Texas county in the U.S. 2020 presidential election. Harris County, which is larger than the State of Rhode Island and has 2.4 million registered voters, had only one voting drop-box location. Based on Abbott's policy, voters at one end of the county would have had to drive over an hour to reach that box in order to submit their ballot. On October 9, 2020, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Pitman issued an injunction blocking Abbott's order limiting the number of ballot drop-off sites to one per county; Pitman wrote that the governor's order placed "older and disabled voters living in Texas's largest and most populous counties must travel further distances to more crowded ballot return centers where they would be at an increased risk of being infected by the coronavirus in order to exercise their right to vote and have it counted" and that voters risked being disenfranchised if the U.S. Postal Service failed to deliver their ballots in time. Days later, however, Pitman's order was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Hollins sought to send out applications for postal (mail-in) ballots for the general election to each registered voter to Harris County. This plan was challenged by Republican officials, however, and was blocked by the Supreme Court of Texas in October 2020. Other policies instituted by Hollins include expansion of in-person voting locations, the introduction of drive-through voting, developing COVID-19 safety guidelines regarding voting, extending voting hours to include 24-hour voting.

On November 1, 2020, days before Election Day, the Supreme Court of Texas threw out a Republican challenge seeking to invalidate about 127,000 votes cast via the drive-through voting program Hollins implemented. Two days later a federal judge upheld the legitimacy of drive-through votes, rejecting a similar Republican effort to invalidate votes case through this method.

On September 7, 2021, Governor Greg Abbott responded to the voting modifications Hollins put in place during his tenure as Clerk by signing a voting bill that includes sweeping legislation to tighten state election laws and constrain local control of elections by limiting the ability to expand voting options at the county level. The voting bill was scheduled to take effect just in time for the 2022 primary elections, but has since been stuck in federal court by a flurry of legal challenges to its potential to disproportionately impede the voting rights specifically as to people of color or with disabilities. If the bill overcomes the challenges it now faces, it will restrict how and when voters are able to cast their respective ballots; target voting initiatives implemented in the Democratic and diverse Harris County by banning overnight early voting hours and drive-thru voting which were options frequently employed by voters of color in 2021; further restrict already significantly limited voting-by-mail rules; grant free movement to partisan poll watchers as well as increased autonomy; set new rules for voter assistance, including additional criminal penalties; and make it a felony with a punishment of imprisonment to proactively distribute applications for mail-in ballots even where they are providing those applications to persons who automatically qualify to vote by mail. On February 11, 2022, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez blocked the portion of the law which makes it a crime for election officials to send out vote-by-mail applications to registered voters who had not requested one on the basis that it amounts to unlawful viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment. In issuing his ruling, Judge Xavier Rodriguez said, "The State of Texas has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content."

Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
After his tenure as County Clerk, Hollins was appointed to sit on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.

Television Appearances
In November 2020, Hollins appeared on various national and local news programs to discuss the Harris County elections, including, but not limited to MSNBC Programming.

Following his tenure as Clerk, Hollins continued making national and local news appearances, including, but not limited to KTRK-TV (ABC);  Ayman; and Zerlina.