§ 12102(1)(A) ("The term ‘disability’ [for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act] means ... a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities....”). 5 . Section 30.002(a) codifies the common-law rule as it existed before the rules of civil procedure: the judge who heard the case has authority to file findings even if that judge has been displaced by election. In Storrie, we held that the judge "who presided at the trial, had authority, after the expiration of his term of office, and during the term of the court at which the trial was had, to make and file conclusions of fact and law in response to the motion of appellant.” 75 S.W. at 21. 6 . See also Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. v. Laca, 243 S.W.3d 791, 796 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2007, no pet.) (<HOLDING>); Fid. & Guar. Life Ins. Co. v. Pina, 165
holding that rule 18 granted a successor to a resigned judge the power to file findings when a case was transferred between districts holding that rule 18 grants authority to some successor judges to file findings holding that rule 18 granted a successor to a deceased judge the power to file findings holding that not even the successor to a retiring judge may file findings because retirement is not listed in rule 18 and has a statutorily distinct meaning from resignation holding that neither rule 18 nor section 30002 allowed the successor to an electoral loser to file findings when the transition did not happen during the period in which the trial court was obligated to file findings