Lynn Hughes
| Lynn Hughes | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #3 |
| Station: | Houston, TX |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Ronald Reagan |
| Active: | 12/17/1985 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Robert O'Conor |
| Past post: | Texas District 189, Judge |
| Past term: | 1981 - 1985 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1941 |
| Home State: | Houston, TX |
| Bachelors: | U. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, B.A., 1963 |
| Law School: | U. of Texas Law, J.D., 1966 |
| Grad. School: | U. of of Virginia Law, LL.M., 1992 |
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Lynn Nettleton Hughes is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He joined the court in 1985 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
Early life and education
Born in Houston, Texas, Hughes graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama with his Bachelor's degree in 1963 and later graduated from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin, Texas with his Juris Doctor degree in 1966. Hughes also earned a Master of Laws Degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992.[1]
Professional career
Hughes was a private practice attorney in Texas from 1966 to 1979. From 1979 to 1980, Hughes was District Judge in the 165th Judicial District of Texas in Harris County, Texas. From 1980 to 1985, Hughes was District Court Judge in the 189th Judicial District of Texas in Harris County. Since 1973, Hughes has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law, and from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Texas School of Law.[1]
Judicial career
Southern District of Texas
On the recommendation of Texas U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, Hughes was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas by President Ronald Reagan on October 16, 1985 to a seat vacated by Robert O'Conor as O'Conor assumed senior status. Hughes was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 16, 1985 on a Senate vote and received commission on December 17, 1985.[1]
Notable cases
Alleged developer bribery case
| United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
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| Judge Hughes presided in the case of two Houston area developers who were accused of bribing Monique McGilbra, the Director of the City of Houston Building Services department. The complaint alleged that the two developers forced Ms. McGilbra to steer contracts to allow their firm to build a new $53 billion dollar 911 center. [2] In February 2012, the United States Department of Justice dismissed all charges against the developers. The same day, Judge Hughes signed the order. [3] |
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Robert O'Conor |
Southern District of Texas 1985–Current Seat #3 |
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 | ||
