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Decatur Baptist College (now Dallas Baptist University) was established in Decatur in 1898. It was the first two-year institution of higher education in Texas. In 1965, the college moved to Dallas to be in a larger population center. The former Administration Building then housed the Wise County Heritage Museum.
Congressional districts. 13th, 26th. Website. www.co.wise.tx.us. Wise County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 68,632. [1] Its county seat is Decatur. [2] Wise County is part of the Dallas – Fort Worth – Arlington metropolitan statistical area.
Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with County Courts and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same courthouse. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of Texas, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas, which it oversees.
Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as ...
Tanner Horner faces charges of capital murder of a person under 10 years old and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Athena Strand, whose body was found Dec. 2, 2022, in Wise County, Texas.
www.txnd.uscourts.gov. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (in case citations, N.D. Tex.) is a United States district court. Its first judge, Andrew Phelps McCormick, was appointed to the court on April 10, 1879. The court convenes in Dallas, Texas with divisions in Fort Worth, Amarillo, Abilene, Lubbock, San ...
In 2015, a staggering 43.6% of federal patent suits (2,540 suits) were filed in the Eastern District, which was more than the number of lawsuits filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (545 cases or 9.3%), the United States District Court for the Central District of California (300 cases or 5.1%), the United ...
Clinton Winkler, an appeals court judge, Texas state representative, and Confederate colonel 7,414: 841 sq mi (2,178 km 2) Wise County: 497: Decatur: 1856: Cooke County: Henry Alexander Wise, the U.S. Congressman and future thirty-eighth governor of Virginia (1856–1860) who supported the annexation of Texas: 78,097: 905 sq mi (2,344 km 2 ...