Justice, Texas Court of Appeals, First District May 2002- present (appointed by Governor Rick Perry, May, 2002; elected to 2-year remainder of predecessor’s term, Nov., 2002; elected to full 6-year terms, Nov. 2004, Nov. 2010); intermediate appellate court with general jurisdiction (civil; criminal; probate; family); Chief of Panel C
Special Assistant Attorney General, 2000-2001 (Special Assistant to Texas Attorney General John Cornyn for complex and class action litigation)
Partner, Clements, O’Neill, Pierce, Nickens & Wilson, LLP, 1996-2000: Of Counsel, 2001-2002; Associate, Clements, O’Neill, 1993-95; Porter & Clements 1988-1993 (predecessor firm) (trial and appellate complex civil litigation, federal and state, plaintiff and defense)
Admitted: Texas State Bar 1988; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1988; U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, 2000; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1989; U.S. Supreme Court 1991
Professional Memberships, Associations, Offices:
- American Judicature Society (AJS) (National Advisory Council 2011-present; Center for Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee 2011-present)
- American Law Institute (ALI) (elected May, 2006; Principles of Governmental Ethics Advisory Council 2010-present);
- Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) (Program Planning Comm. 2010-2011
- State Bar of Texas Judicial Section (Board of Directors (2010-present)
- State Bar of Texas (Court Rules Standing Committee, 2006-present; chair appellate subcommittee 2009-present, co-chair appellate subcommittee 2008-present);
- Texas Center for the Judiciary (Judicial Resources Committee 2009-present)
- Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow); Houston Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
- Houston Bar Association (many committees; most current: Judicial Polls Committee 2010-2011; Administration of Justice Committee 2005-2010)
- Texas State Bar College
- University of Houston Law Center (Clerkship Committee (2009-present); Law Alumni Board of Directors (1990-96); Law Review Alumni Board of Directors (1988-1990); occasional guest lecturer on jurisprudence)
- American Bar Association (ABA Young Lawyers Division Ethics Comm. Chair, 1989-91)
- State Bar of Texas (Grievance Committee, 1994-1999)
- Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration, NYU
- Phi Delta Phi
Philosophical:
- Houston Philosophical Society (chair, long-range planning committee (2010-2011); president (2009-2010); vice-president (2008-2009); recording secretary, 2006-2008; membership committee (2006-2007); executive committee, 2004-present)
- Federalist Society
Martindale-Hubbell rating: AV (highest)
Education:
University of Houston Law Center: J.D., cum laude, Dec., 1987
Chief Articles Editor, Houston Law Review; Order of the Coif; Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award; Distinguished Service Award; award for best interdisciplinary comment; Order of the Barons; Phi Delta Phi; University Fellowship; Intern to Judge Carolyn Dineen King, 5th Cir. Ct. App.
Rice University, M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1985 (Philosophy):
University Fellowship; dissertation, “Moral Choice,” nominated for best dissertation in humanities (Committee: Profs. Baruch Brody (chair); Larry Temkin; Stephen Klineberg)
University of Texas, M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1972 (English):
Woodrow Wilson Fellow; University Fellowship; Fulbright Fellowship for study in France (declined); dissertation: “Yeats’ Early Drama: The Countess Kathleen in Context”
Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University: B.A., magna cum laude (1965)
Honors in English; distinction on comprehensive exams; high honors on honors thesis on William Blake’s “The Four Zoas”; Phi Beta Kappa; Tulane Scholars & Fellows;
Junior Year Abroad University of Paris
Presentations
Various bar association and other continuing legal education presentations, including:
Alfred P. Murrah Lecture Series: “The Art of Persuading Judges,” moderator Bill Dorsaneo, roundtable participant, SMU Dedman School of Law, January 20, 2011
“Tips from the Bench for Winning on Appeal,” Galveston County Bar Ass’n, May 27, 2010, Brazoria County Bar Ass’n, April 9, 2010
“Summary Judgment Checklist,” 1st Court of Appeals Brown Bag CLE Luncheon Series for new briefing attorneys Sept. 1, 2010; Aug. 28, 2009; Aug. 2008
“Summary Judgments: A View from the Trial and Appellate Bench,” HBA CLE, August 20, 2009 (with Hon. Sharolyn Wood)
“Going to the Appellate Court While Your Case is Still in the Trial Court: Mandamus & Interlocutory Appeals,” HBA Civil/Appellate Bench/Bar Conference, Apr. 24, 2009 (panel: Russell Post, Hon. Leslie Yates)
“Effective Appellate Advocacy,” Advanced Civil Trial Law Conference, Feb. 29, 2008 (panel; moderator Shawn Stephens)
"Structuring Sentences, Paragraphs, & Arguments in Appellate Opinion Writing," 1st Court of Appeals Brown Bag CLE Luncheon Series for new briefing attorneys (every Sept., 2002-2007)
“Mandamus: Perspectives of Courts and Counsel,” HBA Civil/Appellate Bench Bar Conference, April 13, 2007 (panel, moderator Kevin DuBose)
“Preparing the Record for Appeal,” HBA Appellate Section CLE, Jan. 25,2006
(panel with Buddy Hanby)
“Why the Appellate Courts Reverse,” HBA Appellate Practice Institute, May 21, 2004 (panel with Kent Rutter)
“Effective Motion Practice: Trial and Appeal,” HBA/CLE, May 7, 2004
(panel with Hon. Elizabeth Ray)
"Summary Judgments in the Courts of Appeals," HBA Labor & Emp. Law Section, June 8, 2003 (panel with David Furlow)
Publications
“Judicial Strategy and Legal Reason,” 44 Indiana Law Review (forthcoming)
“The Just Society and the Liberal State: Classical and Contemporary Liberalism and the Problem of Consent,” 9: 1 Georgetown J. of Law and Public Policy 1 (Winter 2011)
“Two Conceptions of Judicial Integrity: Traditional and Normative Approaches to Issues of Morality and Social Justice,” XXII: 1 Notre Dame J. of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy (Spring 2008)
“The Literary Judge: The Judge as Novelist and Critic,” 44: 3 University of Houston L. Rev. 679 (Summer 2007)
“Representative Democracy and the Public Trust,” 10: 1 Philosophy in the Contemporary World (Spring-Summer 2003)
“Summary Judgment Practice in Texas: A Guide to Reform,” 57: 11 Tex. Bar J. (1994)
“Civil Rights Suits that Interfere with Ongoing State Civil Proceedings: Younger Abstention in the Wake of Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc.,” 24: 5 University of Houston L. Rev., 917 (1987)
Personal:
Married to David R. Keyes, four adult children, grandchildren
Member, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Houston, TX
Frequent communicant, All Saints Episcopal Church, Austin, TX |
