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Emma K. Boone (1918): [ 183] First female lawyer in Lubbock County, Texas. Pat Moore (1949): [ 184] First female lawyer elected to public office in Lubbock County, Texas (upon becoming a Judge of Lubbock County Court at Law, Number 2 in Lubbock, Texas; 1957). She is also the first female appointed as a Judge of the 72nd District Court.
Harold Valderas: [58] First Latino American male to serve as a judge in North Texas (1971) and district court judge in Central Texas (1977) Don B. Chae: [59] First Asian American male lawyer (1980) and judge (1995) in North Texas. William Melvin Schultz (c. 1960): [60] First Jewish American male lawyer in the Southern District of Texas.
The Texas Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and eight justices. All nine positions are elected, with a term of office of six years and no term limit. The Texas Supreme Court was established in 1846 to replace the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas. It meets in downtown Austin, Texas in an office building near the Texas State Capitol.
April 29, 1950 (age 74)[ 1] New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Education. Harvard University ( BA) Magdalen College, Oxford ( BA) Yale University ( JD) Keith Paty Ellison[ 2] (born April 29, 1950) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. His chambers are in Houston .
List of justices. Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas 's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge 's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 ...
Recorded June 1, 2023. Amy Vivian Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. [ 1] The fifth woman to serve on the court, she was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27, 2020.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, 116th Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, clerked for her predecessor Justice Stephen Breyer during the 1999–2000 term. Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term ...
George Washington University ( BA) Brown University ( MA) Duke University ( JD) Kenneth Winston Starr (July 21, 1946 – September 13, 2022) was an American lawyer and judge who as independent counsel authored the Starr Report, which served as the basis of the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He headed an investigation of members of the Clinton ...