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Rebeca Huddle | |
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| Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas | |
| Assumed office October 30, 2020 | |
| Appointed by | Greg Abbott |
| Preceded by | Paul W. Green |
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| Born | Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle July 7,1973 El Paso,Texas,U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) University of Texas at Austin (JD) |
Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle [1] (born July 7,1973) [2] is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas since 2020. She previously served as a justice of the First Court of Appeals of Texas from 2011 to 2017. [3]
On October 15,2020,Governor Greg Abbott nominated Huddle to the Texas Supreme Court to replace Justice Paul W. Green,who retired from the court in August. [3] [4] Huddle was sworn into office on October 30,2020. [5] [6]
Huddle was born in El Paso,Texas and attended Austin High School in El Paso. [7] [8] She received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Stanford University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law. [3]
After graduating law school,Huddle became a partner in Baker Botts LLP's trial department,focusing on civil litigation. She worked in that position until her appointment to the First Court of Appeals in Houston. [8] [9]
Once Huddle left the Court of Appeals,she returned to Baker Botts and became the partner-in-charge of their Houston office,focusing on commercial litigation and appeals. [10] [11] She left that position once she was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court.
In 2011,then-Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Huddle to the nine-member First Court of Appeals,replacing Elsa Alcala,who had been elevated to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. [7] [12] The First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals,both based in Houston's 1910 Harris County Courthouse,divide the caseload of appeals from Harris County and nine surrounding counties. [13] They hear both civil and criminal matters and each issue about 700 decisions per year. [14] The term of the justice Huddle replaced expired at the end of 2012,so she chose to stand for election in November 2012 to a new six-year term. She won her election with 53.4% of the vote. [15] Huddle left the court in June 2017 (before her term would have expired in 2018) and returned to private practice at Baker Botts. [7] [10]
Huddle is a member of the State Bar of Texas,Houston Bar Association,and the Mexican American Bar Association of Houston. [7]
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