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Associate Justice James F. Byrnes, whose short tenure lasted from June 1941 to October 1942, was the last Justice without a law degree to be appointed; Stanley Forman Reed, who served on the Court from 1938 to 1957, was the last sitting Justice from such a background. In total, of the 114 justices appointed to the Court, 49 have had law degrees ...
Jefferson Law School Dallas: c. 1915: 1938 N/A South Texas College of Law: Houston: 1923 148-194 St. Mary's University School of Law: St. Mary's University: San Antonio: 1927 148-194 [Note 2] University of Texas School of Law: University of Texas at Austin: Austin: 1883 16 Texas A&M University School of Law: Texas A&M University: Fort Worth ...
Raul A. Gonzalez Jr. (1966): [36] First Hispanic American male appointed as an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1984) David Wellington Chew: [ 37 ] First Asian American male to serve as a Justice (1995) and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2006)
He later became a partner at Baker Botts, where he chaired the firm's Supreme Court and Constitutional Law practice group. [3] Young was a member of the Texas Judicial Council from 2017 to 2021. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Mississippi School of Law. [3]
Jeffrey Scott Boyd (born 1961) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court.He was appointed to Place 7 on the court by Governor Rick Perry in the fall of 2012 to fill the seat vacated by Justice Dale Wainwright, and he won a full six-year term on the court in the 2014 election.
Xavier Rodriguez (born September 20, 1961) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Rodriguez was previously a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 2001 to 2002.
Wallace Bernard Jefferson (born July 22, 1963) is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from 2004 until October 1, 2013. In October 2013, he joined the law firm Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP as a name partner and now practices appellate law.
In 2005, Simmons was specially commissioned as a Supreme Court justice to sit on a pending case before the Texas Supreme Court. In 2012 Simmons lost her re-election campaign. As of 2017, she was seeking election to the Fourth Court of Appeals place 5 currently held by Justice Angelini, who has announced her retirement at the end of her term.