firm McKool Smith; Has won over $1 billion in judgments and verdicts; Represented Quincy Jones in his lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson over royalties for Off the Wall & Thriller Thomas M. MelsheimerDallas Managing Principal for Fish & Richardson; 1986 magna cum laude graduate Jose Rolando Olvera Jr. Federal Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas James Aubrey Parker Federal Judge United States District Court for the District of New Mexico David Peeples, Texas state court judge since 1981; based in San Antonio Robert L. Pitman United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Former United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas; First openly LBGT US Attorney and Federal Judge in Texas Jack Pope (1913-)Lawyer, judge, and Supreme Court of Texas Chief Justice 1982-1985 Edward C. Prado United States Ambassador to Argentina; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Nelva Ramos Federal Judge Southern District of Texas Eddie Rodriguezmember of the Texas House of Representatives Xavier Rodriguez Federal Judge United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Former Member of Texas Supreme Court Diana Saldana Federal Judge Southern District of Texas Barefoot Sanders Chief Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas; U.S.Assistant Attorney General;United States Attorney; Democratic Nominee for United States Senate in 1972 Jorge Antonio Solis Chief Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Leslie H. Southwick Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Sam Sparks Federal Judge Western District of Texas Joseph Tyree Sneed III U.S. Deputy Attorney General; Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Dean of Duke University School of Law; Father of Carly Fiorina Robert Schwarz Straussformer United States Ambassador to Russia; former United States Trade Representative; United States Special Envoy for the Middle East; Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee; Founder of international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Namesake of Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Stephen Susman (J.D. 1965) plaintiffs attorney and founding partner of Susman Godfrey R. Ewing Thomason Former Federal Judge United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Member of Congress; Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives;Mayor of El