When Cyndi Gore stepped into her new role as director of juvenile services and chief probation officer for Collin County, it was less a career pivot and more the culmination of a lifelong calling.
“I have worked in the Collin County Juvenile Justice System since 1999,” Gore said. “Helping kids put their mistakes behind them is a motto I have lived by as an attorney, judge, and now as chief probation officer. Over the past 26 years, juvenile justice has become a passion. I realized that God has been leading me down this path all of my professional career, and this is where He has called me to be.”
That calling has been shaped by an unusually broad perspective. Gore began her career as an assistant district attorney for Collin County, later building a successful law practice focusing on criminal defense, before serving as the presiding judge of the Allen Municipal Court for more than eight years…