[1] To win his seat, Turner defeated Republican Lisa Luby Ryan.

Ryan had earlier unseated the Republican incumbent, Jason Villalba, in the 2018 primary election.

[3] John Turner graduated from Harvard University and Yale Law School.

He is now employed by the Dallas firm of Haynes and Boone and was the lead attorney for eighty-eight public school districts which fought a three-year legal battle for equitable school funding.

He has represented Dallas and more than two dozen other Texas municipalities in opposition to the construction of eleven new coal-fired power plants in the state.