Scott Brister
{{Short description|American judge}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Scott Andrew Brister
| image = Brister Scott hiresRGB 12 2012.jpg
| caption =
| office = Chief Justice of the 15th District Court of Appeals
| term_start = June 11, 2024
| term_end =
| preceded = Office established
| succeeded =
| office1 = Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
| term_start1 = November 21, 2003
| term_end1 = September 7, 2009
| preceded1 = Craig T. Enoch
| succeeded1 = Eva Guzman
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|1|8}}
| birth_place = Waco, Texas, U.S.
| death_date =
| residence = Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas
| nationality = American
| party = Republican
| spouse = Julie Upton Brister
| children = Four daughters
| alma_mater = Duke University
Harvard Law School
}}
Scott Andrew Brister (born January 8, 1955) 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. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Rick Perry to serve the remainder of the term of Justice Craig T. Enoch. He was then elected to a regular six-year term in November 2004. Brister resigned from the court effective September 7, 2009, before the scheduled end of his term on December 31, 2010. He was succeeded on the court by Eva Guzman, the first female Hispanic to serve on the body.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6575736.html{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was later employed as a partner in the Austin office of the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huntonak.com/en/people/scott-brister.html|title=Judge Scott A. Brister|website=Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP}} On June 11, 2024, Governor Greg Abbott announced his intention to appoint Brister as chief justice of the newly created Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals.{{Cite web|url=https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-appoints-inaugural-members-to-fifteenth-court-of-appeals/|title=Governor Abbott Appoints Inaugural Members To Fifteenth Court Of Appeals|website=Governors Office Website}}
Background
Brister is a native of Waco, Texas. He is a 1977 summa cum laude graduate of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the 1980 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1989, he was appointed judge of the 234th District Court in Harris County, Texas by Governor Bill Clements and presided over that court until the end of 2000. He was also local administrative judge for the Harris County civil district courts in 1998–1999.
He was elected to the First Court of Appeals of Texas, in 2000. He 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. He 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.
He has home schooled all four of his daughters with wife Julie Upton Brister. He has four siblings: Robin Brister, Susan Brister, Michal Adams, and Steven Brister. The Bristers live in Georgetown, Texas. Brister, a Republican, was appointed to chair the Texas Commission on Public School Finance by Governor Greg Abbott in 2017.
Notable opinions
- [http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/Opinions/HTMLopinion.asp?OpinionID=2000681 Neely v. West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District (dissenting from judgment holding Texas school financing plan unconstitutional)]
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Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of Texas
Category:Duke University alumni
Category:Harvard Law School alumni
Category:People associated with Hunton Andrews Kurth
Category:People from Waco, Texas
Category:Lawyers from Austin, Texas