David M. Medina

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David M. Medina (born 1958) is a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He serves as the member of Place 4. He was elected to a full-term in 2006, so his term will expire in 2012.

[edit] Appointment to the Court and Professional Experience

Medina succeeded Wallace B. Jefferson in Place 4 after Jefferson’s appointment to be chief justice. Governor Rick Perry appointed Medina on November 10, 2004. Medina had been Perry's General Counsel since January 2004.

Before that, he was associate general counsel for Cooper Industries in Houston from 2000-2004 and served on the 157th State District Court bench in Harris County from 1996-2000 after appointment in May 1996 by then-Governor George W. Bush. He was elected in November 1996 and again in November 1998. The Houston Bar Association voted him as one of the top jurists in Harris County.

Medina rejoined Cooper in 2000 as associate general counsel for litigation, responsible for supervising Cooper’s litigation and product-safety matters throughout the world. In January 2004, he left Cooper to become General Counsel to Gov. Perry.

[edit] Background and Education

Medina was born on Galveston Island, attended public schools in Hitchcock and graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Southwest Texas State University in 1980 (now Texas State University-San Marcos). In college he competed on the university’s karate and baseball teams and was on the Dean’s List. In 1989 he earned his Juris Doctor degree from South Texas College of Law. He was on the Dean’s List and a member of the American Bar Association Regional Moot Court National Championship Team.

Medina is a former board member of Habitat for Humanity and Houston Metro. He currently serves on the board for the Spring Klein Baseball Association. He has also served as an adjunct professor for South Texas College of Law, where he taught advanced civil trial litigation.