Check Foard County Court Dates

How the Foard County Court Calendar Works

Foard County runs several court calendars rather than one shared public list. The 46th District Court hears district matters. Three other courts keep their own settings. These are the constitutional County Court, the Foard County Justice of the Peace, and the Crowell Municipal Court. Appeals follow a separate schedule at the Seventh Court of Appeals. A date pulled for one court should never be assumed to fit another.

The county website posts no page labeled as a criminal docket call. No civil hearing calendar appears either. There is no jury calendar or case-settings feed. That gap does not mean the courts lack working calendars. It means any Foard County court schedule should be confirmed directly. So confirm with the office handling the case. The case or cause number is the best key. It may be unknown. If so, the case style, a party name, and an approximate setting date will help the clerk locate the matter.

Foard Calendar or Court Setting?

The official Public Notices Calendar offers several views. Choose Day, Week, Month, or Agenda. It also adds category filters, printing, downloading, iCal, and RSS. Those handy controls can look like a court scheduling tool. But no entry there names a court, judge, cause number, courtroom, or setting type. It is a county notices and events calendar, not a verified case-hearing calendar.

A commissioners meeting is not a court setting. It is not a civil motion hearing, a criminal setting, or a docket call. The Agendas and Minutes archive likewise covers county government meetings, not court cases. Check the page label at the source. Check each event's details too. Only then treat an entry as a Foard County court setting.

The controls are convenient. Still, the label on a page and the details of each event decide whether an entry counts as a Foard County court setting.

Foard County Court Date Lookups

A sound Foard County court date lookup starts by matching the case to the office that keeps it. Use the court name printed on a summons, citation, order, bond paper, or filed notice. If a paper only says Foard County, ask which court owns the cause.

1. Check the right official online route. re:SearchTX has a Hearings category where coverage is available, the appellate court has its own search, and Crowell nCourt may show municipal citation status.
2. Call the correct office. The County/District Clerk is at (940) 684-1365, County Court is at (940) 684-1424, the JP is at (940) 684-1917, and Crowell Municipal Court is at (940) 684-1014.
3. For a 46th District Court matter, call coordinator Sherrie Gibson at (940) 552-7051 with the cause number, court, and case style.
4. At the courthouse, ask whether in-office inspection, a printed docket, or a public terminal is available. Terminal access was not confirmed.
5. Use the relevant mailing, fax, email, or contact route for a written inquiry. No formal calendar-request form was located.
6. Confirm the date, time, court, location, and setting type before travel.

The combined clerk receives mail at P.O. Box 539, Crowell, TX 79227, with fax at (940) 684-1918. In person, start at 101 S. Main in Crowell. Visitors needing ADA access have another option. They should use the west basement door. When a notice looks inconsistent, ask an attorney in the case to verify it.

Foard District Court Term Mondays

Texas Government Code section 24.148 sets terms of the 46th Judicial District Court in Foard County. Those terms begin on the sixth, seventeenth, and thirty-sixth Mondays after the first Monday in January. A term is simply an official period when the court conducts business. It makes no promise about any single case. Nothing guarantees a hearing on one of those Mondays.

The distinction matters. Term dates frame the court's work. But a notice of setting or direct confirmation controls an actual appearance. Foard shares the district with Hardeman and Wilbarger Counties. The court directory lists its main office in Vernon. So ask whether a Foard County hearing will sit in Crowell, Vernon, or another authorized place.

Note: A statutory court term and an individual Foard County hearing date answer two different scheduling questions.

Court Settings: What Each Field Means

A Foard County court setting should tie one date to one court and one case. The county posts no live setting record online. Treat the field descriptions here as a reading aid drawn from how Texas courts generally work, not as a description of a specific Foard display.

A notice or order filed in the case beats a calendar guess. Quote any unclear setting line to the clerk or coordinator. Never decode an abbreviation without an official source.

Foard District Setting Coordinator

The state directory names Sherrie Gibson as coordinator for the 46th District Court. The court phone is (940) 552-7051. The listed email is judge46dc@co.wilbarger.tx.us. This is the most specific published route for a Foard County district setting. The directory also lists Leslie Ryan-Hash as reporter, but a transcript request and a future setting inquiry are two different calls.

A call to a Vernon office does not mean the appearance is in Vernon. Ask for the location, room, date, and time, and whether a formal notice or order has issued.

When a Foard Court Date Moves

Court dates shift for different reasons. A reset simply moves a matter to a later setting. A continuance is different. It is a delay the court has approved. When an event is cancelled, it will not go forward as listed. The case itself lives on. Foard County publishes no rule on how quickly an online source picks up any of these changes.

So check for a later notice, docket event, or order. Then confirm with the clerk, the coordinator, the lower court, or an attorney. A missing web result proves nothing. Search systems lag, and some documents never go online. The case may also sit in a different Foard County court. For activity after a date moves, the Foard County docket search walks through the name and number routes that exist.

Foard County Setting Terms

Setting terms explain why a case lands on a court calendar. Foard County has posted no local list of codes, so plain words beat guessed abbreviations every time.

Setting

A scheduled appearance, conference, hearing, docket call, or trial.

Docket call

An event at which matters are called or scheduled. It is not always a trial.

Notice of setting

Notice of a future event. It does not prove the event occurred.

Reset

A move to a later setting. Verify the new date.

Continuance

A delay authorized by the court. A request does not mean it was granted.

Hand any unclear code, along with the full cause number, to the clerk's office. No Foard source supports decoding an unfamiliar calendar term by guesswork.

Foard Agendas Are Not Hearings

Foard County's Agendas and Minutes page preserves notices and records for county meetings. It helps residents follow Commissioners Court business. It will not give the date of a criminal arraignment, civil motion, JP trial, or Crowell citation setting. The official archive at its source shows meeting notices and minutes. It covers county government, not judicial hearings.

Reading the source label keeps administrative county business apart from the judicial calendar, and it saves a wasted trip.

Missed Settings and What Comes Next

Act quickly after missing a Foard County court setting. Reach the court named on the notice and any attorney involved in the matter. Ask whether the court entered an order, set another date, or wants a step taken before the case returns to the schedule. The clerk can state record facts but cannot give legal advice.

A missed date cannot be fixed through the Public Notices Calendar. Go straight to the court, which can identify the official case record and any new instruction.