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John N. Johnson (1883): [8] First African American male lawyer in Austin, Texas [Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties, Texas] Rogelio Fernandez Munoz (1974): [ 71 ] First Latino American male to serve as the District Attorney for the 38th Judicial District [ Medina , Real and Uvalde Counties , Texas]
The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state ...
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.
The State Bar of Texas is composed of those persons licensed to practice law in Texas and is an "integrated" or "mandatory" bar. The State Bar Act, adopted by the Legislature in 1939, mandates that all attorneys licensed to practice law in Texas be members of the State Bar. [4] [5] As of 2023, membership in the Texas Bar stood at 113,771. [6]
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ruben Perez of the U.S. Attorney Office for the Southern District of Texas, and Trial Attorney Jim Felte from the Civil Rights Division. [13] Not long after being sentenced, Higgins died on April 29, 2010, at the age of 42, while incarcerated in the Coastal Bend Detention Center in Robstown ...
The institution is a major research university in Downtown Austin, Texas, US and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with ...
Hortense Sparks Ward (1910): [6] [7] First female lawyer in Texas, as well as the first female admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court (1915) Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas. She would leave the profession and become a Hollywood actress later in life.
The Bank of America Center is the 37th tallest building in Austin, Texas.It was built in 1975 and has 261,609 square feet (24,304 m 2) of office space on 26 floors. [2] It is 336 feet (102 m) tall [3] and is located on the east side of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin between 5th and 6th Streets.