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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 2018, membership in the Texas Bar stood at 103,342. [6]
The American Bar Association is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The association comprises 410,000 members, who are represented by a House of Delegates, the organization's primary body, which acts to create and adopt new policies and recommendations pertaining to the ...
Richard Pena: [59] [60] First Hispanic American male (and first minority in general) to serve as the President of the Austin Bar Association, Texas (1990) Joseph C. Parker Jr.: [59] [71] First African-American male to serve as the President of the Austin Bar Association, Texas (1996)
As President of the Texas State Bar, Miers supported affirmative action, going so far as to continue a quota system for women and ethnic minorities practicing law in the state. [19] Bob Dunn, the outgoing president of the organization, described Miers as "certainly one of the leaders" in supporting the quota system.
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.
President of the University of North Carolina (1891–1896); [19] president of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1899–1908) [20] [21] [22] 3 William Lambdin Prather: November 4, 1899 July 24, 1905 President of the Texas Bar Association (1895–1896); [23] chairman of the Board of Regents (1899–1900) [24] [25] [26] 4
Jaworski served as president of both the Texas Bar Association (1962–1963) and the American Bar Association (1971–1972) prior to his appointment as Special Prosecutor. He was also President of the Houston Chamber of Commerce in 1960 and served on many corporate and civic boards.
He was a member of the Tarleton Purple Association, Erath County Bar Association, Hood County Bar Association, Parker County Bar Association, Tarrant County Bar Association, American Bar Association, and Texas Bar Association. [3] He was an active Freemason, and served for 30 years as parliamentarian for the Grand Lodge of Texas AF & AM.