- Harry Whittington
Harry M. Whittington (born March 3, 1927) is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas who received international media attention on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail with two women on a ranch in Corpus Christi, Texas.
- Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President. Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. Ms. Miers has a long and distinguished professional career. Before joining the President's staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000.
- Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel (1994-1997). Subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas (1997-1999) and then on the Texas Supreme Court (1999-2000). From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel.
- Joe Jamail
Joseph D. Jamail, Jr (born October 19, 1925 in Houston, Texas) is a Lebanese American attorney and billionaire. One of the wealthiest lawyers in America, he is frequently referred to as the King of Torts. In 1985, Mr. Jamail represented Pennzoil in a lawsuit against Texaco. Pennzoil won the case and his contingency fee was $335 million. Mr. Jamail has given large donations to The University of Texas at Austin.
- John Cornyn
John Cornyn III (born February 2, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Texas. He is a Republican and was elected to his first term in November 2002, defeating Democrat Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas, Texas. Cornyn was born in Houston, Texas to Atholene Gale Danley and John Cornyn II. He graduated from Trinity University in 1973, where he majored in journalism and was a member of the local fraternity Chi Delta Tau. He earned a J.D. from St.
- Nathan Hecht
Nathan L. Hecht (born August 15, 1949) is a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Hecht, a Republican, was elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988 and reelected in 1994, 2000, and 2006. With over 18 years of service, Hecht is currently the most senior Justice of the Court. He was re-elected to a fourth six-year term on November 7, 2006. His term ends on December 31, 2012.
- Priscilla Owen
Priscilla Richman Owen (born October 4, 1954) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She was previously a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court. Owen was born in Palacios, Texas.
- Sarah Weddington
Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945 in Abilene, Texas) is a Texas attorney and lecturer who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee represented "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark "Roe v. Wade" case in the United States Supreme Court.
- James Baker
James Addison Baker III (born April 28 1930) served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration, Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 in the second Reagan administration, and Secretary of State in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He is also the founder of the James Baker Institute.
- Dick Deguerin
Dick DeGuerin (born in Austin, Texas, February 16, 1941) is a Texas criminal defense attorney. DeGuerin was admitted to the State Bar in 1965. Early in his career (1971-1982), he was an associate with Percy Foreman. As of December, 2005, he is representing former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in DeLay's defense against indictments for money laundering and conspiracy, brought by Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle.
- Frederick Baron
Frederick Martin Baron (born 1947 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a trial lawyer best known for representing plaintiffs claiming toxic and chemical exposure. He has also been an active figure in politics as a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party.
- Dan Morales
Daniel C. "Dan" Morales (born 1956) served as Texas attorney general from 1991 through 1999, during the administrations of Governors Dorothy Ann Willis Richards and George W. Bush. As attorney general, Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco companies. He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the <i>Hopwood v. Texas</i> case, …
- William Pitt Ballinger
William Pitt Ballinger was a respected and influential Texas lawyer and statesman. His behind-the-scenes life had a major impact on the development of Texas realty and railroad law, furthering the Confederacy during the Civil War, the Reconstruction in Texas, the emancipation of black slaves, and the industrialization of the South. Throughout the many local, state, and national events and issues, …
- William Steger
William Merritt "Bill" Steger (August 22, 1920 - June 4, 2006) handled some 15,000 cases in a career spanning 35 years as a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Texas. President Richard M. Nixon appointed Steger, based in Tyler, the seat of Smith County, to the bench in 1970. Steger was also a former chairman of the Texas Republican Party was the unsuccessful GOP nominee for governor in 1960 and for the Third District U.S. House seat in 1962.
- Jim Mattox
James Albon "Jim" Mattox (born August 29, 1943) is a Dallas lawyer and Texas Democratic politician who served three terms in the U.S. Congress and two terms as attorney general but lost high profile races for governor in 1990 and the U.S. Senate in 1994.
- Ron Kirk
Ronald "Ron" Kirk (born June 27, 1954) was the first African American mayor of Dallas, Texas; he also ran for the United States Senate in 2002. Born in Austin, Texas, Ron Kirk attended Austin College and The University of Texas School of Law. Upon his graduation in 1979, he practiced law until 1981 when he left to work in the office of then-Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen.
- Aaron Peña
Aaron Peña, Jr. is a member of the Texas House of Representatives. Representative Peña represents a district in Hidalgo County in Deep South Texas. In November 2002, he was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat. Representative Peña is an attorney with the law firm of Rodriguez, Colvin, Chaney, and Saenz. He is married to Monica (Solis) and is the father to five children.
- Barr McClellan
Oliver Barr McClellan (born 1939), the first husband of outgoing Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Carole Keeton Strayhorn, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors, BA, JD. As a student McClellan was an active supporter of Senator John F. Kennedy's presidential bid. After qualifying as a lawyer in 1964 he went to work for the administration of Kennedy's successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Paul Burka
Paul Burka joined the staff of TEXAS MONTHLY one year after the magazine's founding. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in history, and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Burka is a member of the State Bar of Texas and spent five years as an attorney with the Texas Legislature, where he served as counsel to the Senate Natural Resources Committee.
- Phil King
Phillip Stephen "Phil" King (born February 29, 1956) is a Weatherford, Texas, attorney who has been a conservative Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1999. He represents District 61, which encompasses Parker and Wise counties to the west of Fort Worth.
- Sim Lake
Sim Lake is an American judge and attorney who has served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas since 1988. He notably presided over the the trial of Enron Chairman Ken Lay and former Chief Executive Officer Jeff Skilling. He was born on July 4, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 and was number one in his class at the University of Texas School of Law in 1969.
- Henry Cuellar
Henry Roberto Cuellar (born September 19, 1955) is a Democratic politician from Laredo, Texas, representing the state's 28th Congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Cuellar's district extends from the Rio Grande to the suburbs of San Antonio
- Johnny Sutton
Johnny Sutton is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. Sutton chairs the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys.
- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Barbara Ann Radnofsky (born July 8, 1956) was the Democratic nominee for the Texas U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, in 2006. She is the first woman to have won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas.
- Sarah T. Hughes
Sarah Tilghman Hughes (August 2, 1896 - April 23, 1985) was the United States District Court judge who swore Lyndon Johnson into the office of President on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination, becoming the first - and to date the only - woman in U.S. history to swear in a U.S. President (a task usually executed by the Chief Justice of the United States).
- Martin Frost
Jonas Martin Frost III (born January 1, 1942) is an American politician, who was the Democratic representative to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Texas 24th Congressional District from 1979 to 2005. He was married to U.S. Army Major General (Retired) Kathryn Frost until her death in 2006. Born in Glendale, California, Frost grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1964 with bachelor's degrees in journalism and history, …
- Don Willett
Don R. Willett is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. He serves as the member of Place 2. Willett's term expires December 31, 2012. He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry on August 24, 2005 to serve out the remainder of former Justice Priscilla Owen's term following her appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Willett was elected to a full six-year term on November 7, 2006.
- Herb Kelleher
Herbert D. Kelleher (born March 12, 1931) is the co-founder, Chairman and former CEO of Southwest Airlines (based in the United States). Kelleher was born and raised in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and a Juris Doctor from New York University. At Wesleyan he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is married to the former Joan Negley and they have four children.
- Tony Garza
Antonio Oscar "Tony" Garza, Jr. (born 1958), an American lawyer and former county judge in Texas, is the United States ambassador to Mexico. Garza, the grandson of Mexican immigrants to the U.S, graduated from Saint Joseph Academy in Brownsville, the seat of Cameron County on the Gulf of Mexico coast in far south Texas.
- Carlos Uresti
Carlos Ismael "Charlie" Uresti (born September 12, 1963) is a Democrat representing the 19th District in the Texas Senate. Uresti previously represented portions of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio in District 118 in the Texas House from 1997 to 2006. Uresti, the youngest of eight children, was born in Bexar County, Texas, reared in San Antonio and graduated from McCollum High School. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve at age eighteen, …
- Catherine Crier
An Emmy Award-winning journalist and the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas, Catherine Crier joined Court TV's distinguished team of anchors in November 1999. She was recently named the Executive Editor, Legal News Specials, in addition to hosting Catherine Crier Live. Crier, a Texas-bred independent with a passion for justice, debates with her guests the provocative topics of the day.
- Maury Maverick
Fontaine Maury Maverick (October 23, 1895-June 7, 1954) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1939. He is best remembered for his independence from the party and for coining the term "gobbledygook" for obscure and euphemistic bureaucratic language. Maverick was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Albert and Jane (Lewis) Maverick.
- Ralph Yarborough
Ralph Webster Yarborough (June 8, 1903 - January 27, 1996) was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate (1957 until 1971) and was a leader of the progressive or liberal wing of his party in his many races for statewide office. As a U.S. senator, he was a staunch supporter and author of "Great Society" legislation that encompassed Medicare and Medicaid, the War on Poverty, federal support for higher education and veterans.
- Robert Holleyman
Robert Holleyman is president and chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Holleyman has headed the alliance since 1990, overseeing its operations in more than 85 countries, including offices in London, Singapore and Beijing. Holleyman has been active in leading the industry's efforts to expand into emerging markets including China and Eastern Europe.
- Tom C. Clark
Tom Campbell Clark was United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1949-1967). Clark was born in Dallas, Texas, to Virginia Maxey Falls and William Henry Clark. He served as a Texas National Guard infantryman in 1918; afterward he studied law, receiving his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1922 and setting up practice in his home town of Dallas from 1922 to 1937.
- Percy Foreman
Percy Foreman, born Percy Eugene Foreman (June 21, 1902 – August 25, 1988) was a criminal defense attorney from Houston, Texas. His clients included James Earl Ray, who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Charles Harrelson, convicted murderer and the father of actor Woody Harrelson.
- Kent Hance
Kent Ronald Hance (born November 14, 1942, in Dimmitt, Texas) is a lobbyist and lawyer who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from west Texas, having served from 1979 to 1985. After his congressional service, he switched to the Republican Party. As a conservative Democrat, Hance represented the 19th Congressional District, which then stretched from Midland and Odessa to Lubbock.
- Louie Gohmert
Louis Buller "Louie" Gohmert, Jr. (born August 18, 1953, in Pittsburg, Texas), is an American politician and current Republican U.S. Representative from Texas's 1st district(map). Gohmert received his B.A. from Texas A&M University in 1975. At A&M, he was a Brigade Commander of the Corps of Cadets. He later received his Juris Doctor from Baylor University in 1977. Gohmert served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army, at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1978 to 1982.
- Linda Coffee
Linda Nellene Coffee (b. 1942) is an attorney living in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Coffee is best known for representing (along with her friend and co-counsel Sarah Weddington) Norma McCorvey (a.k.a. Jane Roe), a pregnant woman who desired an abortion, in the precedent-setting United States Supreme Court case "Roe v. Wade", in which many laws restricting abortion access were invalidated.
- Byron M. Tunnell
Byron Milton Tunnell (October 14, 1925 - March 7, 2000) was a state representative from 1957-1965, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1963 to 1965, and a member of the elected Texas Railroad Commission from 1965-1973. Tunnell was born in Tyler, the seat of Smith County and the largest city in east Texas, and educated in public schools. He graduated from Tyler High School and Tyler Junior College.