Court's Revised Liaison Assignments
|
Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson Place 1 Chief Justice Jefferson was appointed chief justice September 14, 2004, by Gov. Rick Perry. He succeeds former Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips, who resigned September 3. He is the 26th person designated as chief justice in Texas history. Governor Perry appointed Jefferson to the Court... more |
|
Justice Nathan L. Hecht Place 6 Justice Nathan L. Hecht was elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988 and re-elected in 1994, 2000 and 2006. He is the senior Texas appellate judge in active service. Throughout his service on the Court, Justice Hecht has overseen revisions to the rules of administration, practice and... more |
|
Justice Dale Wainwright Place 7 Justice Dale Wainwright was elected to the Supreme Court of Texas on November 5, 2002, after serving as presiding judge of the 334th Civil District Court in Harris County. Justice Wainwright was appointed to the civil district court in 1999 by then-Gov. George W. Bush. The Houston bar gave... more |
|
Justice David Medina Place 4 Justice Medina, a former Harris County state district judge, succeeded Wallace B. Jefferson in Place 4 after Jefferson's appointment to be chief justice. Gov. Rick Perry appointed Justice Medina, who was the governor's general counsel since January 2004. Before that, he was associate... more |
|
Justice Paul W. Green Place 5 Justice Paul W. Green was elected to the Supreme Court of Texas in 2004. Before joining the Court, he served for ten years as a Justice on the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio. A lifelong resident of San Antonio, Justice Green received his business degree from the University of Texas... more |
|
Justice Phil Johnson Place 8 Justice Johnson was appointed to the Court on March 15, 2005, by Gov. Rick Perry. He was serving as chief justice of the Seventh Court of Appeals in Amarillo at the time of his appointment. He was elected to the Seventh Court of Appeals in 1998 and was elected chief justice in 2002... more |
|
Justice Don R. Willett Place 2 Don Willett was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in August 2005 by Governor Rick Perry. He succeeds former Justice Priscilla Owen, who joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in June 2005. Before assuming the bench, Justice Willett was Deputy Texas Attorney General for... more |
|
Justice Eva Guzman Place 9 Justice Eva Guzman was appointed to the Court October 8, 2009, by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. She was an Associate Justice on the Houston-based Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals, having been appointed in 2001 by Perry after serving on the Harris County Family Court by appointment by then-Gov. George W. Bush... more |
|
Justice Debra Lehrmann Place 3 Debra H. Lehrmann was appointed to the Court by Governor Rick Perry on June 21, 2010. Before her appointment, she served as the District Judge of the 360th District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, and served as a family law judge in Tarrant County for 22 years. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Justice Lehrmann graduated from the University of Texas in 1979 and the University of Texas School of Law in 1982... more |
Updated: 13-Jun-2011
