Rebeca Huddle | |
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Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas | |
Assumed office October 30, 2020 | |
Appointed by | Greg Abbott |
Preceded by | Paul W. Green |
Associate Justice of the First Court of Appeals of Texas | |
In office August 2011 – June 2017 | |
Appointed by | Rick Perry |
Preceded by | Elsa Alcala [1] |
Succeeded by | Jennifer V. Caughey [1] |
Personal details | |
Born | Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle
[2] 1973 or 1974 (age 50–51) [3] El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Education |
Stanford University (
BA) University of Texas Law School ( JD) |
Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle (born 1973 or 1974) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas since 2020. She previously served as a justice of the First Court of Appeals of Texas from 2011 to 2017. [4]
On October 15, 2020, Governor Greg Abbott nominated Huddle to the Texas Supreme Court to replace Justice Paul W. Green, who retired from the court in August. [4] [5] Huddle was sworn into office on October 30, 2020. [6] [7]
Huddle was born in El Paso, Texas and attended Austin High School in El Paso. [8] [9] She received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Stanford University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law. [4]
After graduating law school, Huddle became a partner in Baker Botts LLP's trial department, focusing on civil litigation. She worked in that position until her appointment to the First Court of Appeals in Houston. [9] [10]
Once Huddle left the Court of Appeals, she returned to Baker Botts and became the partner-in-charge of their Houston office, focusing on commercial litigation and appeals. [11] [12] She left that position once she was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court.
In 2011, then-Governor Rick Perry appointed Huddle to the nine-member First Court of Appeals, replacing Elsa Alcala, who had been elevated to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. [8] [13] The First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals, both based in Houston's 1910 Harris County Courthouse, divide the caseload of appeals from Harris County and nine surrounding counties. [14] They hear both civil and criminal matters and each issue about 700 decisions per year. [15] The term of the justice Huddle replaced expired at the end of 2012, so she chose to stand for election in November 2012 to a new six-year term. She won her election with 53.4% of the vote. [16] Huddle left the court in June 2017 (before her term would have expired in 2018) and returned to private practice at Baker Botts. [8] [11]
Huddle is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association, and the Mexican American Bar Association of Houston. [8]