Brett Busby
What this job does: One of nine justices on the Texas Supreme Court, the state's highest court for civil cases (not criminal ones). It has the final word on what state civil law means and also writes the rules for lawyers and courts. A term is six years; the Place 2 winner serves the rest of an unfinished term.
- Current office
- Justice, Supreme Court of Texas, Place 8 (since March 2019)
- Occupation
- Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
Background
- Bachelor's degree from Duke University; J.D. from Columbia Law School. source: ballotpedia.org
- Law clerk to Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat (Eleventh Circuit) and Justice John Paul Stevens (U.S. Supreme Court); later an appellate attorney in private practice. source: ksat.com
- Justice on the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, 2012 to 2018. source: ballotpedia.org
- Appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas in 2019; won election in 2020. source: ballotpedia.org
In their own words
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- Expand access to legal services and civic education source: ksat.com
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