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SDTX Bench Bar Conference Bio - Judge Jeffrey V. Brown

Judge Jeffrey V. Brown

Bio Information

Jeff Brown has been the United States District Judge on Galveston Island since 2019. He previously served six years each as a justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, a justice on Texas’ Fourteenth Court of Appeals, and judge of the 55th District Court in Harris County. He received a B.A. in English from the University of Texas and his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Houston. He then clerked for Justices Jack Hightower and Greg Abbott on the Texas Supreme Court, before practicing at Baker Botts in Houston. A member of both the American Law Institute and ABOTA, Judge Brown is board-certified in civil trial law and has taught trial skills at the University of Houston Law Center, constitutional law at the National Judicial College, and comparative law as the Distinguished Visiting Jurist at St. Mary’s Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Eagle Scout Award from the National Eagle Scout Association. He and his wife, Susannah, live in a historic home in Galveston, three blocks from the beach. They have three grown children.

   
Session

8:45 - 9:45 am - The New(er) Judges of the Southern District of Texas