Academic record
 Bachelor of Arts Degree, with High Honors and Special Honors in the Plan II Interdisciplinary Honors Program: University of Texas at Austin (1977). ● Degree concentrations in English, history, and computer science. ● Completed 125 semester hours — including independent research required for Plan II Special Honors — in 24 months (between June 1975 and May 1977) to earn degree at age 19 with an overall GPA of 3.86/4.0. ● Cactus (UT yearbook) Outstanding Student Award (1979). ● Member (1975-1980) and Trumpet Section Leader (1978-1979), University of Texas Longhorn Band. ● Member, Kappa Kappa Psi band service fraternity. ● Member, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. ● Resident Assistant (for room & board), Castilian Dorm (June 1976-May 1977).
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● Member (1978-1980) and Book Review Editor (1979-1980), Texas Law Review. ● Member, Order of the Coif (top 10%) and Chancellors (top 16 students) academic honorary societies. ● American Jurisprudence Awards (for top individual grade) in Torts, Business Associations, and Advanced Constitutional Law classes.
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Graduate and Outstanding Participant Awardee, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, National Session (1985). |
Although they look a bit like bandits or perhaps even terrorists, the third-year law students shown in this photo from three decades ago were actually quite bright, generally hard-working, and way too serious about themselves. I'm the third from the left in the back row, with the slouch and the smirk. (The listed firms are where I and my fellow law review editors began practicing, most of us after judicial clerkships.)