In re Slaughter

*844OPINION

This Special Court of Review1 is assigned to conduct a trial de novo of the *845State Commission on Judicial Conduct’s Public Admonition and Order of Additional Education issued against Respondent, the Honorable Michelle Slaughter, Judge of the 405th Judicial District Court in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas, selected “by lot” and appointed by the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 33.034 (West Supp.2014) (providing the procedure for appealing the Commission’s sanctions). We note at the outset that the function of the Commission “is not to punish;…