Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The associate justices were the judges of the eight district courts of Texas. The district judges, whose first session was January 13, 1840, served with the chief justice as associate justices from January 13, 1840 to December 29, 1845, when Texas was admitted into the United States:
Most of the current justices were originally appointed either by former Governor Rick Perry or by the current Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who is himself a former member of the court. Like the judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , all members of the Texas Supreme Court are currently Republicans .
The Chief Justice of Texas presides at the Texas Supreme Court, which is the top appellate court for civil matters in the Texas court system. The chief justice (and all the justices) are elected statewide in partisan elections. The term of the chief justice is six years. The position was created in the Texas Constitution of 1876. The current ...
Justices of the Republic of Texas Supreme Court (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Justices of the Texas Supreme Court" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total.
Occupation: Texas Supreme Court Justice. Education: UT Law School (J.D. 1990); UT-Austin (B.B.A., ... Not being a current seated member of the Texas Supreme Court, it is difficult to opine on ...
The Texas Supreme Court is the state’s highest court, or court of last resort, for civil matters in the state. It is made up of nine justices who serve in six-year terms, and three of the court ...
Justin Brett Busby (born April 12, 1973) is a current Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and a former justice of the 14th Court of Appeals of Texas whose six-year term ended December 31, 2018. [1] Along with many other Republican incumbents on the State's largest intermediate appellate courts, Busby was narrowly defeated in the November 2018 ...
Nathan Lincoln Hecht (born August 15, 1949) is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. A Republican from Dallas, Hecht was first elected to the Supreme Court in 1988 and was reelected to six-year terms in 1994, 2000 and 2006. He secured his fifth six-year term on November 6, 2012.