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Established by the Constitution of Republic of Texas [1] Enabling Act, Dec. 22, 1836 Shelby Corzine: 1836–1839 [a] Ezekiel Wimberly Cullen: 1839 [b] Anthony B. Shelby: 1839–1841 [c] Thomas Johnson (Texas jurist) 1841 [d] Richard Morris (Texas jurist) 1841–1844 [e] John Baker Jones: 1844–1845 [f
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.
Wainwright and Wallace B. Jefferson were the first African Americans to be elected to the Texas Supreme Court. Jefferson was initially appointed by Perry in 2001, and won his seat in 2002, in the same election in which Wainwright was elected to an open seat on the court. Like all justices on the state supreme court, Wainwright was a Republican. [5]
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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 ...
What are the biggest challenges facing a Texas Supreme Court justice?: ... 428th Judicial District Judge for Hays County Texas. Education: UT Law School and UT ... of judges as the constitution of ...
Nathan Lincoln Hecht (born August 15, 1949) is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from 2013 until his mandatory retirement December 31, 2024. 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 ...
The Court was established by the Constitution of 1836, which created the Supreme Court and such inferior courts as the Texas Congress might from time to time establish. [1] The constitution also mandated that the Republic be divided into judicial districts, and that the district judges would serve as the associate judges on the Supreme Court ...