Trial, business, and appellate law. Preparatory education, University of Texas, Austin (B.A. with honors, 1975) ; legal education, South Texas College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1981 ). Fraternities: Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Lytae. Assistant Comment Editor, South Texas Law Journal, 1 98O-81. Law Clerk to Hon Edward P. Coulson and Hon. Jimmy James, 14th District Court of Appeals, Texas, 1981-82. Author: "Discovery and Mandamus Issues ,
" South Texas College of Law Advanced Civil Trial Law Course; "U.C.C. S3-305(2)(b): What Degree of Duress?" 21 S. Texas L.J. 47, 1980. Member: State Bar of Texas.