• District Court, S.D. Texas

  Judge

  2019 – present · 7 yrsAppointed by Donald John Trump

Career

• Private practice

  2016 – 2019 · 3 yrs

• Deputy general counsel

  University of Texas System Board of Regents

  2014 – 2016 · 2 yrs

• General counsel

  Office of the Governor, State of Texas

  2011 – 2014 · 3 yrs

• Deputy first assistant attorney general

  2010 – 2011 · 1 yr

• Deputy attorney general for civil litigation

  2007 – 2010 · 3 yrs

• Associate deputy attorney general for litigation and chief ethics officer

  2004 – 2007 · 3 yrs

• Office of the Attorney General

  State of Texas

  1994 – 2011 · 17 yrs

• Law clerk

  General Litigation Division

  1994 – present · 32 yrs

• Assistant attorney general

  General Litigation Division

  1994 – 2004 · 10 yrs

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