Jeff Brown (judge)
American judge
Jeffrey Vincent Brown (born March 27, 1970) is a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and a former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Donald Trump.
Early life and education
Brown's father was a police officer. In 1988, Brown graduated from Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, Texas. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and his Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of Houston Law Center at which he served as one of the editors of the Houston Law Review. He served as a law clerk to Texas Supreme Court Justices Jack Hightower and Greg Abbott, the subsequent governor of Texas. He became certified in civil trial law and practiced with the Houston firm of Baker Botts L.L.P.
Judicial career
From 2001 to 2007, Judge Brown served as a judge of the 55th Texas State District Court in Harris County, Texas. Judge Jeff Brown was appointed to the trial court by Governor Rick Perry in December 2001, won an opposed election to that bench in November 2002, and won re-election in 2006.
From 2007 to 2013, he served as a justice on Texas Fourteenth District Court of Appeals. Governor Perry appointed Brown to the Court in 2007, and he won election to the seat in 2008 and 2012.
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