Fourteenth Court of Appeals

Former Justices and Clerks 

Chief Justice (Created 1967)

Name of Judge

Dates

Bert H. Tunks

1967-1975

J. Curtiss Brown

1976-1995

Paul C. Murphy

1995-2001

Scott A. Brister

2001-2003

Adele Hedges

2003-2013

Kem Thompson Frost

2013-2020

Tracy Christopher

2021-Present

 

Justice Place 2 (Created 1967) [1]

Name of Judge

Dates

Sam D. Johnson

1967-1972

J. Curtiss Brown

1973-1975

George D. Cire

1976-1979

William E. Junnell

1979-1992

Gary C. Bowers

1993

Patrice Barron

1994

Leslie Brock Yates

1994-2010

Sharon McCally

2011-2016

Kevin Jewell

2017-Present

 

Justice Place 3 (Created 1978)

Name of Judge

Dates

George E. Miller

1978-1982

Bill Cannon

1983-1994

John S. Anderson

1995-2012

J. Brett Busby

2012-2018

Jerry Zimmerer

2019-Present

 

Justice Place 4  (Created 1981)

Name of Judge

Dates

Sam H. Robertson

1981-1994

J. Harvey Hudson

1995-2007

Jeffrey V. Brown

2007-2013

Marc W. Brown

2013-2018

Charles Spain

2019-Present

 

Justice Place 5  (Created 1967)

Name of Judge

Dates

John M. Barron

1967-1973

Edward D. Coulson

1973-1981

Jimmy Robert James

1981-1982

Ross A. Sears

1983-1994

Wanda McKee Fowler

1995-2008

Kent C. Sullivan

2008-2010

Martha Hill Jamison

2010-2018

Frances Bourliot

2019-Present

 

Justice Place 6  (Created 1981)

Name of Judge

Dates

Charles L. Price

1981-1982

George T. Ellis

1983-1994

Richard E. Edelman

1995-2007

William J. Boyce

2007-2018

Meagan Hassan

2019-Present

 

Justice Place 7  (Created 1978)

Name of Judge

Dates

Felix Salazar, Jr.

1978-1980

Paul C. Murphy

1981-1995

Harriett O’Neill

1995-1998

Kem Thompson Frost

1999-2013

Ken Wise

2013-Present

 

Justice Place 8  (Created 1981)

Name of Judge

Dates

Robert Emmett Morse, Jr.

1981-1982

Joe L. Draughn

1983-1994

Maurice Amidei

1995-2000

Charles W. Seymore

2001- 2012

John Donovan

2013- 2018

Margaret ‘Meg’ Poissant

2019-Present

 

Justice Place 9  (Created 1978)

Name of Judge

Dates

H. Paul Pressler

1978-1992

Norman Lee

1993-1998

Don Wittig

1999-2001

Eva M. Guzman

2001-2009

Tracy Christopher

2009-2020

Randy Wilson

2021-Present

 

Clerk of Court

Name of Clerk

Dates

Richard E. Tisdale

1967-1970

Thelma Mueller

1970-1981

Claudine Parten

1981

Mary Jane Smart Gay

1982-2000

Edward E. Wells, Jr.

2000-2007

Kelly McIntosh (Pro Tempore)

2008

Christopher A. Prine

2008-2023

Deborah M. Young Clerk

2023 - Present

 

Chief Staff Attorney

Name of Chief Staff Attorney

Dates

Helen Cassidy

1981 - 1998

Nina Reilly Indelicato

1998 - 2015

Carol Porter

2015 - 2019

Deborah M. Young

2019 - 2023

Eleanor Mason

2023 - 2023

Hillary Rolfes

2023 - Present

 

[1] The current place designations do not correspond with the date the seat on the Court was created. Permanent place designations were created by statute in 2003.  Tex. Gov’t Code § 22.216. Place designations were determined by a majority vote of the justices establishing a seniority system to determine which office and place was held by each current justice. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 693, Sec. 5(c), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.