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From 1994 to 2000, Gonzalez worked as an assistant district attorney in Bexar County in San Antonio, Texas.From 2000 to 2003, he was an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas and from 2003 to 2023, he served as an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas.
He was assassinated on May 29, 1979, by Charles Harrelson in the parking lot outside Wood's home in San Antonio, Texas. [3] Harrelson was convicted of killing Wood, having been hired to do so by drug dealer Jamiel Chagra of El Paso, Texas. Wood — nicknamed "Maximum John" because of his reputation for handing down long sentences for drug ...
He may also be considered the first Native American male judge in Texas. [7] Harrel Tillman (1962): [13] First African American male to serve as a municipal court judge in Texas (1964) Carlos Cadena (1940): [14] First Hispanic American male to serve as a Chief Justice of a Texas court (1977) Jerry Birdwell: [15] First openly LGBT male judge in ...
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduces El Paso federal magistrate Judge Leon Schydlower and U.S. Department of Justice Senior Attorney Advisor Ernesto Gonzalez during a Wednesday, Jan. 24 ...
Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...
Judge Gonzalez may refer to: Arthur Gonzalez ( fl. 1960s–2020s), chief judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Ernesto Gonzalez (judge) (born 1962), judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Jeff Wentworth, state senator from San Antonio; unseated in 2012 by Donna Campbell; John H. Wood Jr., federal judge in San Antonio until 1979, when he was assassinated by convicted murderer-for-hire Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson; John C. Woods, executioner of the Nuremberg Trials; master sergeant in United States Army
A Kentucky judge whom authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought against opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level ...