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Hattie Ruth Elam Briscoe: [1] [2] [3] First African American female to graduate from law school in Texas (1956) Hortense Sparks Ward: First female lawyer in Texas (1910) Harriet Mitchell Murphy: First African American female judge in Texas (1973) Eva Guzman: First Hispanic female Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2009)
The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (in case citations, W.D. Tex.) is a federal district court. The court convenes in San Antonio with divisions in Austin, Del Rio, El Paso, Midland, Pecos, and Waco. It has jurisdiction in over 50 Trans-Pecos, Permian Basin, and Hill Country counties of the U.S. state of Texas.
Midland County, Texas. Midland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, the population was 169,983. [1] The county seat is Midland. [2] The county is so named for being halfway (midway) between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railway. Midland County is included in the Midland, TX Metropolitan ...
He challenged the districting scheme for the Commissioners Court of Midland County, a five-member county commission with four Commissioners elected in single-member districts and the County Judge elected at-large. [1] One Commissioner's district, which included almost all the City of Midland, had a population of 67,906, according to 1963 estimates.
Barbara Green Culver (later Barbara Culver Clack; February 9, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court . Culver was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Lawrence F. and Alice Bryson Green. [1] She graduated from Texas Tech University in 1947.
Since the county judge is also responsible for presiding over the Commissioners Court (the main executive and legislative body of the county), in 94 counties the Texas Legislature has established county courts at law to relieve the county judge of judicial duties. The first multi-county statutory county court (composed of Fisher, Mitchell, and ...
Matthew Kacsmaryk. Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk (/ kæsˈmærɪk /; [1][2] born 1977) is an American lawyer who serves United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump in 2017 and sworn in for the position in 2019.
A Texas judge blocked an attempt to keep the story of Jocelyn Nungaray’s killing out of the media spotlight as the two Venezuelan migrants accused of murdering her pushed for a gag order on ...