Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...
Tom C. Clark. Thomas Campbell Clark (September 23, 1899 – June 13, 1977) was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967. Clark was born in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas School of Law ...
Gregory Scott Coleman (October 31, 1963 in San Francisco, California – November 23, 2010 near Destin, Florida) was an American lawyer and the first Solicitor General of Texas, serving in that capacity from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that, he served as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit chief judge Edith Jones from 1992 ...
Austin, Texas. Location. United States. Region. Texas. Website. www.txcivilrights.org. Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, [2] that advocates for voting rights, racial justice, economic justice, and criminal justice reform. [3] It was formed in 1990 by attorney James C. Harrington.
Texas Juvenile Justice Department. The Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) is a state agency in Texas, headquartered in the Central Services Building (CSB) in Austin. It was created on December 1, 2011, replacing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. [1]
The lowest court level in Texas is the Justice of the Peace Court (also called Justice Court or JP Court). Each county has at least one JP Court. [16] Sections 18 and 19 of Article V, as well as Chapters 27 and 28 of the Texas Government Code, outline the duties of these Courts and their officers.
Justice [28] Born Joined Term ends Mandatory retirement [a] Party affiliation Appointed by Law school 1 Darlene Byrne, Chief Justice – January 1, 2021: 2026 – Democratic — [c] Houston: 5 Thomas J. Baker July 30, 1956 (age 68) January 1, 2019: 2024 2034 Democratic — [c] Houston 6 Gisela D. Triana: 1966 or 1967 (age 57–58) [29] January ...
August 28, 1980 (age 44) Missouri City, Texas, U.S. Political party. Republican. Education. University of Texas, Austin (BA) Yale University (JD) Jimmy Blacklock (born August 28, 1980) [1] is an American attorney and judge currently serving as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court.