“Nobody wins here today,” said Tarrant County Judge Scott Wisch.
FORT WORTH, Texas — A woman convicted in the driving while intoxicated death of a beloved Texas Christian University dean has been sentenced to seven years.
A Tarrant County judge sentenced Cristen Hamilton, 37, to seven years in prison for the 2019 death of Dr. Jamie Dulle.
In March 2019, Dulle, 41, was driving west on Rosedale Avenue, near Forest Park Boulevard, when she was rear-ended by another vehicle.
Dulle, a single mother of two children, was taken to a local hospital where she later died from her injuries.
Hamilton was arrested and pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter.
“Nobody wins here today,” said Tarrant County Judge Scott Wisch in a release.
Wisch said Hamilton was a former medical student who “made one mistake, distressed about not making good enough grades to stay in her school, went out drinking and then got behind the wheel of a car.”
Dulle was an assistant dean of campus life. Her roles included student advocacy, crisis response and TCU’s Women’s Program Education, according to the university website.
“Texas Christian University is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Jamie Dulle, assistant dean of Campus Life,” TCU said in a statement at the time of Dulle’s death.
According to Dulle’s family, she was an organ donor and saved five different people through her donation.
“She is a girl that deserves to be known and remembered,” said Dulle’s father, Jim Elshire.
Carl Hamilton, Cristen’s father, apologized to Dulle’s family, stating that the family was “not asking for mercy or a reduced sentence for our daughter, we’re only asking for forgiveness.”
Hamilton will have to serve at least half of her seven year sentence in prison before she’s eligible for parole.