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Butler Snow LLP issued the following announcement on Apr. 15.
Butler Snow attorney Scott K. Field is set to present at the Texas Aggie Bar Association’s 22nd Annual Conference on Saturday, April 24. In the presentation titled “Judges are People, Too What Lawyers Can Learn from Challenges to Judicial Mental Health,” Field will discuss his six years as a judge, the toll the role of a judge can have on a judge’s mental health, and what lawyers can learn from those challenges. More information about the conference can be found here.
Field is a member of the firm’s Appellate practice group. Prior to joining the firm, he served a six-year term as Justice of the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District. Field also has experience from private practice where he handled all levels of trial and appellate matters in federal and state courts, represented individuals and institutions in a variety of commercial litigation matters, including contract and insurance disputes, and
Opinion
One of Texas’ first Black lawyers asked to ‘give us a white man’s chance.’ Few remember John Johnson
The first Black lawyer permitted to argue before the Texas Supreme Court was a century ahead of his time.
The Texas Supreme Court rolls showing John Johnson on the second line from the top. He was the first Black lawyer allowed to appear before the state s highest court.(Courtesy of John Browning)
Long before there was a Martin Luther King Jr. dreaming of equality and a Thurgood Marshall filing landmark civil rights lawsuits in the 20th century, there was John N. Johnson of Brazos County doing the same, only he did it in the previous century.