Kenneth Hoyt
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| Kenneth Hoyt | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #1 |
| Station: | Houston, TX |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 04/01/1988 - Current |
| Preceded by: | Carl Bue |
| Past post: | Texas First District Court of Appeals, Justice |
| Past term: | 1985 - 1988 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1948 |
| Home State: | San Augustine County, TX |
| Bachelors: | Texas Southern U., A.B., 1969 |
| Law School: | Texas Southern U. Law, J.D., 1972 |
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Kenneth Hoyt is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He joined the court in 1988 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
Early life and education
Born in Saint Augustine, Texas, Hoyt graduated from the Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas with his Bachelor's degree in 1969 and received a Juris Doctor degree from Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 1972.[1]
Personal life
Professional career
Hoyt was a private practice attorney in the State of Texas from 1972 to 1985. Hoyt also served as City Attorney for the Cities of Kendleton, Texas and Prairie View, Texas from 1975 to 1981. Hoyt served as Judge for the 125th Civil District Court of Texas from 1981 to 1982 while serving as a Faculty member for the South Texas College Trial Advocacy Program until 1982. Hoyt was an Adjunct Professor at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law from 1983 to 1984. Hoyt was appointed to serve as Justice of the Texas First District Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1988.[1]
Judicial career
Southern District of Texas
On the recommednation of Texas U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, Hoyt was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas by President Ronald Reagan on November 24, 1987 to a seat vacated by Carl Bue, Jr.. Hoyt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 31, 1988 on a Senate vote and received commission on April 1, 1988.[2]
Awards and associations
Notable cases
Judicial philosophy
See also
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Carl Bue | Southern District of Texas 1988–Current Seat #1 | Succeeded by: NA |
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| 1981 |
Bartlett • Beam • Becker • Bork • Cacheris • Cardamone • Chapman • Coughenour • Cox • Crow • Cyr • Doumar • Eschbach • Forrester • Garwood • Gibson • Glasser • Hall • Hamilton • Head • Jones • Kiser • Krenzler • Lee • Magnuson • McLaughlin • Miner • Moore • Nowlin • O'Connor • Pierce • Posner • Potter • Russell • Ryan • Shabaz • Sprizzo • Stevens • Waters • Wilhoit • Wilkins • Winter | ||
| 1982 |
Acker • Acosta • Altimari • Bell • Bissell • Black • Bullock • Caldwell • Coffey • Contie • Coyle • Dowd • Fagg • Fong • Fox • Gadbois • Gibson • Ginsburg • Hart • Higginbotham • Hogan • Irving • Jackson • Jolly • Kanne • Kovachevich • Krupansky • Lynch • Mansmann • McNamara • Mencer • Mentz • Mihm • Moody • Nordberg • Paul • Pieras • Plunkett • Porfilio • Potter • Pratt • Rafeedie • Restani • Roberts • Scalia • Selya • Telesca • Wellford | ||
| 1983 |
Baldock • Barbour • Barry • Bowman • Carman • Carter • Curran • Davis • Dorsey • Feldman • Fish • Flaum • Gibbons • Hallanan • Harris • Hinojosa • Hull • Hupp • Katz • Keenan • Kelly • Kram • Laffitte • Limbaugh, Sr. • Limbaugh, Sr. • Milburn • Nesbitt • Nevas • O'Neill • Rymer • Sharp • Starr • Vinson • Vukasin • Wexler • Woods | ||
| 1984 |
Barker • Beezer • Biggers • Billings • Bissell • Boyle • Brewster • Browning • DiCarlo • Duhe • Garcia • George • Hall • Hargrove • Higgins • Hill • Holland • Ideman • Jarvis • Keller • Leavy • Lee • Legge • Leisure • Little • Livaudais • Longobardi • McKibben • Milburn • Newman • Norgle • Prado • Rea • Rosenblatt • Rovner • Scirica • Smith, Jr. • Sneeden • Stotler • Suhrheinrich • Torruella • Wiggins • Wilkinson | ||
| 1985 |
Alley • Altimari • Anderson • Aquilino • Archer • Arnold • Baldock • Batchelder • Battey • Broomfield • Brown • Brown • Brunetti • Buckley • Cobb • Conmy • Cowen • Davidson • Dimmick • Duff • Easterbrook • Edgar • Farnan • Fernandez • Fitzpatrick • Fuste • Greene • Gunn • Guy • Hall • Hilton • Holderman • Hughes • Johnson • Jones • Korman • Kozinski • La Plata • Leinenweber • Letts • Lovell • Ludwig • Maloney • Mansmann • Marcus • McDonald • Meredith • Miller • Mills • Miner • Motz • Nelson • Noonan • Porfilio • Revercomb • Rhoades • Ripple • Rodriguez • Rosenbaum • Roth • Ryan • Sam • Scott • Sentelle • Silberman • Sporkin • Stanton • Stapleton • Strand • Strom • Tacha • Tevrizian • Thompson • Todd • Tsoucalas • Walker • Walter • Weber • Williams • Wilson • Wingate • Wolf • Wollman • Young • Zloch | ||
| 1986 |
Anderson • Boggs • Bryan • Cedarbaum • Cholakis • Conway • Davies • Dearie • Dubina • Duggan • Edmondson • Fawsett • Fitzwater • Gex • Graham • Hackett • Hansen • Henderson • Hittner • Howard • Jensen • Kay • Kleinfeld • Kosik • Lagueux • Lechner • Magill • Mahoney • Manion • McAvoy • McQuade • Norris • O'Scannlain • Rehnquist • Ryskamp • Scalia • Selya • Simpson • Smalkin • Spencer • Stiehl • Wilkins • Williams • Woodlock • Zatkoff | ||
| 1987 |
Alesia • Beam • Bell • Conboy • Cowen • Cummings • Daronco • Doty • Dwyer • Ebel • Ellis • Gadola • Gawthrop • Greenberg • Harrington • Howard • Hoyt • Hutchinson • Kanne • Kelly • Larimer • Leavy • Lew • Marsh • Mayer • McKinney • Michel • Mukasey • Musgrave • Niemeyer • Parker • Phillips • Politan • Pro • Raggi • Reasoner • Reed • Scirica • Sentelle • Smith • Smith • Stadtmueller • Standish • Tinder • Torres • Trott • Turner • Van Antwerpen • Voorhees • Webb • Whipple • Wolin • Wolle • Wood • Zagel | ||
| 1988 |
Arcara • Babcock • Brorby • Butler • Cambridge • Camp • Conlon • Cox • Dubois • Duhe • Ezra • Forester • Friedman • Garza • Hutton • Jordan • Kennedy • Lake • Lamberth • Lifland • Lozano • Marovich • Nygaard • Patterson • Schell • Smith • Smith • Tilley • Waldman • Zilly | ||
