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Attorneys | J. Woodfin "Woodie" Jones
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J. Woodfin “Woodie” Jones received his B.A. in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975 and earned an LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995.
After law school, he served as Briefing Attorney for Chief Justice J. Curtiss Brown of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston. He practiced business litigation with Bracewell & Patterson in Houston from 1976 to 1981, then moved to Austin, where he practiced business litigation as a partner with Sneed, Vine, Wilkerson, Selman & Perry until 1988.
Woodie was elected to the Third Court of Appeals in Austin in 1988, where he served until 2000. He was highly respected as a jurist by members of the bench and bar. In a 1993 survey asking the lawyers of Travis County to evaluate the performance of 37 Central Texas state, county, and federal judges at various levels, he was the top-rated justice of the T hird Court of Appeals and was the third-highest-rated judge overall. In a similar survey conducted in 1999, he was the top-rated judge on the entire survey (out of 36). In his twelve years on the court, Woodie authored more than 1,500 opinions and participated in deciding roughly 5,000 appeals. During his last two years on the court, he served as the Senior Justice, presiding over one of the court’s three-judge panels.
Woodie has been a frequent speaker and author for continuing legal education programs, most often in the areas of judicial decision-making and appellate advocacy. He has been selected by Texas Monthly Magazine as one of Texas’ “SuperLawyers” for 2004 - 2007. He is Board-Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Woodie has been a member of the State Bar of Texas since 1975. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.
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