Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission

TCERC is made up of 11 members including four legislators, a gubernatorial appointee, representatives of various criminal justice government bodies and stakeholder organizations, and an appointment from the chair of the Texas Judicial Council.

Members

• Presiding Officer - Representative John T. Smithee, Amarillo
• The Honorable Sharon Keller, Chair, Texas Indigent Defense Commission
• Senator Joan Huffman, Houston
• Senator John Whitmire, Houston
• Representative Abel Herrero, Corpus Christi
• Sam Bassett, President, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
• John Beauchamp, General Counsel, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
• Dr. Vincent Di Maio, Presiding Officer, Texas Forensic Science Commission
• Charles Eskridge, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Houston
• J. Staley Heatly, Chairman, Texas District and County Attorneys Association
• Carol Vance, Retired, Houston

Advisory Members

• Tiffany J. Dowling, Director, Texas Center for Actual Innocence at The University of Texas School of Law
• Anthony S. Haughton, Executive Director, Innocence Project at The Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University
• Cassandra Jeu, Director, Texas Innocence Network, University of Houston Law Center
• Mike Ware, Executive Director, The Innocence Project of Texas