Event: Views from the Bench with Judges Brown, Hendrix, Kacsmaryk & Starr
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
500 N. Akard Street | Suite 4000 | Dallas, TX 75201
CLE Credit: CLE and ethics credit pending

Hon. Ada Brown: Before joining the federal bench, Judge Brown served as a Judge on the Fifth Court of Appeals and on the Dallas County Criminal District Court in Dallas.  Before joining the state bench, Judge Brown also served as an Assistant District Attorney for Dallas County, where she was a felony prosecutor for the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.  Judge Brown also practiced at McKool Smith in Dallas and was an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at SMU.  She earned her BA, magna cum laude, from Spelman College, and her JD from Emory University School of Law.

Hon. James Wesley Hendrix: Prior to taking the bench, Judge Hendrix served as the Appellate Chief for the Northern District of Texas’s United States Attorney’s Office. Before his work as a prosecutor, Judge Hendrix was an associate in the Dallas office of Baker Botts LLP. Judge Hendrix received his undergraduate degree, with Honors, from the University of Chicago, and earned his law degree, with High Honors and as a Chancellor-at-Large, from the University of Texas School of Law. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
  
Hon. Matthew J. Kacsmaryk: Before becoming a judge, Judge Kacsmaryk was Deputy General Counsel to the First Liberty Institute.  Prior to that, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas.  He also was an associate in the Dallas office of Baker Botts LLP. Judge Kacsmaryk received his BA, summa cum laude, from Abilene Christian University and his JD, with Honors, from the University of Texas School of Law.
 
Hon. Brantley Starr: Prior to joining the bench, Judge Starr served as the Deputy First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, from 2016 to 2019, under Jeff Mateer.  Starr also served as a staff attorney to Justice Eva Guzman of the Supreme Court of Texas, and worked as an Assistant Attorney General, Assistant Solicitor General, and Deputy Attorney General for Legal Counsel, all in the office of the Attorney General of Texas.  Judge Starr also practiced law at King & Spalding in Austin. Judge Starr received his BA, summa cum laude, from Abilene Christian University, and earned his JD from the University of Texas School of Law.  After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk to then-Justice Don Willett of the Supreme Court of Texas.