Priscilla Richman Owen is the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She was previously a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) is the court of last resort for civil appeals in the U.S. state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA), is the court of last resort in criminal cases.
Wallace Bernard Jefferson is a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who served from 2004 until October 1, 2013. In October 2013, he joined the law firm Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP as a name partner and now practices appellate law.
Nathan Lincoln Hecht is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. 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 fifth six-year term on November 6, 2012. He was appointed chief justice by Governor Rick Perry on September 10, 2013, and was sworn into that position by retiring Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson on October 1, 2013.
J. Dale Wainwright is a former associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, now in private practice with Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Austin, Texas.
Laura Denvir Stith has been a judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri since 2001. She was elected by her fellow Supreme Court justices to serve a two-year term as Chief Justice, from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2009, becoming the second woman to serve as Missouri's highest-ranking jurist.
Jennifer Walker Elrod is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Lisa K. Fair McEvers is a North Dakota lawyer and jurist who serves as a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court since 2014. She previously served as Commissioner of the North Dakota Department of Labor from 2005 to 2010 and district judge from 2010 to 2014.
Eva Martinez Guzman is a member of the Texas Supreme Court, the highest court of appeals for civil and juvenile cases of the State of Texas. She was appointed to Place 9 on the court by Governor Rick Perry in the fall of 2009 to fill the seat vacated by Justice Scott Brister, who had resigned with more than a year left in his term.
Scott Douglas Makar is an American lawyer, college professor and Judge on the Florida First District Court of Appeal. Previously he was the Florida Solicitor General serving from 2007 until 2012 and in that position, argued five cases before the United States Supreme Court.
Cathleen Cochran Herasimchuk, known as Cathy Cochran, is a former judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A resident of Austin, Texas, she was initially appointed to the court in 2001 by Governor Rick Perry and elected by Texas voters in 2002 and 2008. She did not seek reelection to the bench in 2014 and was succeeded in her Place 9 seat by her fellow Republican, David Newell of Houston.
Jeffrey Scott Boyd is a member of the Texas Supreme Court, the court of last resort for civil and juvenile appeals in the State of Texas. He was appointed to Place 7 on the court by Governor Rick Perry in the fall of 2012 to fill the seat vacated by Justice Dale Wainwright, and he won a full six-year term on the court in the 2014 election.
Judith L. French is an American jurist. She was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court by Governor John Kasich, to replace Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, who resigned. A graduate of The Ohio State University, she previously served as a judge of the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals.
Charles Jones "Charlie" Bethel is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He is a former Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Before his judicial tenure, he served as Senator in the Georgia General Assembly from Dalton, Georgia. Bethel was first elected Senator in the 2010 general election and served Georgia's 54th district—a constituency which includes Murray and Whitfield counties, and portions of Gordon and Pickens counties as well.
W. Scott Bales is the former Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 2005 by Governor Janet Napolitano through Arizona's merit selection system. He was retained for a six-year term in 2008. He was elected by his fellow justices as Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, effective June 27, 2014. He replaced Justice Rebecca White Berch as Chief Justice.
George Carol Hanks Jr. is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Jeffrey S. Bivins is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. He was appointed Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.
Denham Arthur Kelsey is a Virginia lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. His twelve-year term on the Supreme Court began on February 1, 2015. Kelsey was previously a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Charles Alan Lawson, known professionally as Alan Lawson, is an attorney and jurist from Florida. He has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since 2016, when he was appointed by Governor Rick Scott. He previously was a judge on the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal.
Jason Kenneth Pulliam is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
