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Samuel B. Kent (born June 22, 1949) [1] is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, whose term ended in resignation in 2009 following charges of sexual abuse. Kent served in the single-judge Galveston Division covering Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, and Matagorda Counties.
In 2007, criminal charges were filed against Judge Samuel B. Kent, the only District judge in the Galveston Division, who sat at the Federal Courthouse in Galveston, the oldest federal judgeship in the state. [7] Due to the litigation, Chief Judge Hayden Head transferred Kent and his staff to the Houston Division.
In his decision, Judge Samuel B. Kent of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas ordered the school to eliminate all denominational activity in the classroom. Religion may only be discussed in a "non-denominational and non-judgmental" manner. He also permitted students to offer a non-denominational prayer at ...
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Judge Kent may refer to: Samuel B. Kent (born 1949), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas W. Wallace Kent (1916–1973), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Education: University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1995; Dean’s Achievement Award: Highest Grade in International Law); University of Texas L.B.J. School of Public Affairs (Master of Public ...
A person of interest has been taken into custody in the case of a Texas state judge who was shot in front of her home in an upscale Austin neighborhood last week, police in the state capital said ...
He taught as a professor at Baylor for a year after his graduation, and then worked as an assistant district attorney in Galveston, Texas, from 1949 to 1952, and an assistant city attorney for Galveston from 1951 to 1953. In 1954, he became a judge of the Probate Court of Galveston County, Texas, and continued in that office until 1968. In 1969 ...