Kevin Yeary

Kevin Yeary
Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 1, 2015
Preceded byPaul Womack
Personal details
Born (1966-09-08) September 8, 1966 (age 60)
PartyRepublican
EducationSt. Mary's University, Texas (BA, JD)
WebsiteOffice website
Campaign website

Kevin Patrick Yeary is an American attorney and jurist serving as a judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 2015.

Background

Yeary has a Bachelors of Arts in English communication from St. Mary's University. He also has his Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University.

Following law school, Yeary was a briefing attorney for Judge Bill White, a former judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. From 1992 to 1995, Yeary worked as an associate attorney for Hedges & Walsh. However, he left private practice to become an assistant district attorney, where he worked in Dallas County, Harris County, and Bexar County.

Judgeship

In 2014, Yeary was elected to Place 4 on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as a Republican in a partisan election. According to an analysis done by Ballotpedia to determine judge partisan behavior, Yeary was labeled a "mild Republican". Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has criticized every member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals except Yeary because he was the lone dissenter in a case that prohibited the state attorney general from having unilateral power to prosecute voter fraud.

References

  1. ↑ "TJB | CCA | About the Court | Judges | Judge Kevin Yeary". www.txcourts.gov. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Kevin Patrick Yeary". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Kevin Yeary". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  4. ↑ Svitek, Patrick (18 May 2022). "Why Ken Paxton's supporters in the Texas attorney general race are unbothered by his mounting scandals". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 3 August 2022.