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Earle moved to Austin when he was 19 to attend the University of Texas and the University of Texas School of Law. In 1967, while a law student, he went to work in the office of Texas Governor John Connally. [5] After graduating from law school, [citation needed] he was appointed and served as a municipal judge in that city from 1969 to 1972. At ...
John C. Alaniz (1957): [77] [78] First Hispanic American male (a lawyer) elected to the Texas State House of Representatives from Bexar County, Texas (1960) Andrew L. Jefferson Jr. (1959): [ 79 ] First African American male to serve as the Assistant District Attorney of Bexar County, Texas (1961)
Kyle Douglas Hawkins is an American attorney and professor who served as Solicitor General of Texas from September 2018 until February 2021. As of 2024, Hawkins currently serves as adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin 's law school.
Patsy L. Smith Moore (1949): [195] First female lawyer elected to public office in Lubbock County, Texas (upon becoming a Judge of Lubbock County Court at Law, Number 2 in Lubbock, Texas; 1957). She is also the first female appointed as a Judge of the 72nd District Court.
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 ...
Jenkens settled a number of malpractice lawsuits in 1987 for $18 million. In the 1990s, Jenkens saw intense growth and added offices outside Texas for the first time to expand from a regional into a national law firm. Opening a Chicago office with a tax attorney team from Altheimer & Gray in 1998 would become the most fateful act for the firm. [1]
Bracewell LLP is an international law firm based in Houston, Texas, that began in 1945.The firm has approximately 350 lawyers, and has United States offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Antonio, Seattle, Dallas and Austin, as well as offices in Dubai, Paris and London.
Sutton grew up in Houston, Texas.He is the grandson [1] of World Series-winning St. Louis Cardinals manager Johnny Keane. [2] Sutton is a fluent speaker of Spanish. [1]Sutton graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in International Business in 1983 and then earned a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Texas School of Law in 1987.