Jeff Brown
Supreme Court of Texas
Jeff Brown was appointed to Texas Supreme Court by Governor Rick Perry in September 2013 to replace Justice Nathan L. Hecht after Hecht's appointment as chief justice. Justice Brown took his oath October 3.
Since 2007 he had been a justice on Houston's 14th Court of Appeals.
From 2001 into 2007 he served as judge of the 55th District Court. In 2009 Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson appointed Brown to the state's Multi-District Litigation Panel. In 2011 he was named Appellate Judge of the Year by the Texas Association of Civil Trial & Appellate Specialists.
Justice Brown holds board certification in civil trial law. Before becoming a judge, he practiced at Baker Botts LLP in Houston, trying jury cases throughout Southeast Texas. Before joining Baker Botts, he was a briefing attorney to Justices Jack Hightower and Greg Abbott on the Texas Supreme Court.
He is the fourth former law clerk to become a justice on the Court.
He earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and his law degree with high honors from the University of Houston. While in law school he served as chief note and comment editor of the Houston Law Review.
In 2006, the Texas Young Lawyers Association named Brown its Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas. He has been active in state and local bar activities, including service as judicial liaison to the Houston Young Lawyers Association, chairman of HYLA's Non-Profit Law Committee, co-chairman of the Houston Bar Association's John J. Eikenburg Law Week Fun Run and vice-chairman of TYLA's National Trial Competition. He has served on the boards of the Texas Lyceum, Houston Law Review, University of Houston Law Alumni Association, Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, Texas Center for the Judiciary and Christian Community Service Center. He also serves on LifeHouse of Houston's advisory board and as a Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo committeeman.
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- Supreme Court of Texas
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- Houston's 14th Court of Appeals
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- 55th District Court
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- The University of Texas School of Law
- English
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- University of Houston Law Center
- Law degree | with high honors
- Activities: chief note and comment editor of the Houston Law Review.
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- Appellate Judge of the Year
- Texas Association of Civil Trial & Appellate Specialists
- Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas
- Texas Young Lawyers Association
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
- judicial liaison
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- HYLA's Non-Profit Law Committee
- Chairman
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- Houston Bar Association's John J. Eikenburg Law Week Fun Run
- co-chairman
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- TYLA's National Trial Competition
- vice-chairman
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- Editorial board of the The Advocate, the quarterly journal of the State Bar's Litigation Section
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