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Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle
Justice · Supreme Court of Texas
Biography
Professional career
- Justice, Texas Supreme Court, Austin, TX, 2020-2022
- Republican U.S. judge and Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, appointed in 2020 and elected to a full term in 2022
- Place 5 on the Supreme Court of Texas, appointed by Governor Greg Abbott on October 15, 2020, to replace Justice Paul W. Green
- Partner in Charge of Houston Office, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, 2017-2020
- Leadership: Partner-in-Charge of Baker Botts’ Houston office from 2018
- Associate Justice, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston), Houston, TX, 2011-2017
- Judicial Service: 2011: Appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the First Court of Appeals of Texas 2012: Elected to the position; authored over 400 reasoned majority opinions during her tenure 2017: Left the court to return to private practice at Baker Botts
- Partner, Trial Department, Baker Botts LLP, Houston, TX, 1999-2011
Education
- Political Science — Stanford University — 1995
- B.A. in Political Science, Stanford University J.D., University of Texas School of Law (three endowed presidential scholarships, graduated with honors)
Additional information
- Sworn in on October 30, 2020, and elected to a full term in 2022, with her current term ending December 31, 2028.
- She has received the Houston Bar Association Appellate Section’s award for Outstanding Judicial Service and Leadership (2018) and was named Woman on the Move by Texas Executive Women (2019).
- with honors — The University of Texas at Austin — 1999
- Boards including the Greater Houston Partnership and Houston Area Women’s Center.
- handling civil litigation from personal injury to complex commercial and shareholder disputes.
- Early Career: After law school, she joined Baker Botts LLP
- Justice Huddle is a member of the American Law Institute, Texas Bar Foundation, and Houston Bar Foundation.
- She is married to Greg Huddle and has two teenage daughters.
- Birth place: El Paso, TX
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