1. Scott Andrew Brister was born on January 8,1955 and is the chief justice of Texas's Fifteenth Court of Appeals since September 2024 and a former justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, where he served from November 2003 until September 2009.
10 Facts About Scott Brister
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Scott Brister was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Rick Perry to serve the remainder of the term of Justice Craig T Enoch.
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Scott Brister was then elected to a regular six-year term in November 2004.
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Scott Brister was succeeded on the court by Eva Guzman, the first female Hispanic to serve on the body.
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Scott Brister was later employed as a partner in the Austin office of the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth.
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Scott Brister was elected to the First Court of Appeals of Texas, in 2000.
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Scott Brister served on the First Court for less than two years before Perry appointed him chief justice of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals of Texas in 2001.
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Scott Brister was elected to that position in 2002 and served the first eleven months of that term before he was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court.
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Scott Brister has home schooled all four of his daughters with wife Julie Upton Brister.
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Scott Brister has four siblings: Robin Brister, Susan Brister, Michal Adams, and Steven Brister.