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Jane Bland, who served on the First Texas Court of Appeals for 15 years and on a state court bench for six before that, joined Vinson & Elkins' appellate practice as a partner in Houston.
Kathryn J. Whitmire, first female Mayor of Houston; served five terms; Jared Woodfill, Houston attorney and former chairman of the Harris County Republican Party [54] Kevin Patrick Yeary, judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, based in San Antonio; former assistant district attorney for Harris County [55]
Districts map. There are fourteen appellate districts each of which encompasses multiple counties and is presided over by a Texas Court of Appeals denominated by number: [19] The counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, and Wood are in the jurisdictions of both the Sixth and Twelfth Courts, while Hunt County is in the jurisdiction of both the Fifth and Sixth Courts.
The Texas Supreme Court Building. Texas is the only state besides Oklahoma to have a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. [4] The Texas Supreme Court hears appeals involving civil matters (which include juvenile cases), and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals involving criminal matters. [4]
A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most populous county, a ...
Chief Justice for the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas; In office November 17, 2009 – December 31, 2018: Appointed by: Rick Perry: Preceded by: Linda B. Thomas [1] [2] Succeeded by: Robert D. Burns, III [3] Associate Justice for the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas [4] In office 1995–2009 [4] Appointed by: George W. Bush: Judge of the 256th ...
On September 15, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tipton's ruling regarding Biden's executive order was incorrect, disagreeing with his reading of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and his disregard for the long-standing tradition of executive procedural authority ...
Rosenthal was selected as the trial judge of the year by the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists in 2000 and again in 2006. [3] She has received the Houston Bar Association's highest bar-poll evaluation for judges three times — in 1999, 2005 and 2007. [ 5 ]