Leonard E. Davis (born 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.[1] He was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2002 and was sworn in on May 15, 2002. He previously served as Chief Justice of the Twelfth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas and was a practicing civil trial attorney in East Texas for 23 years prior to becoming a judge.
Judge Davis graduated cum laude and first in his class from Baylor Law School in 1976 where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Baylor Law Review and a member of Baylor's interscholastic moot court and mock trial teams. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1970, and his Master of Management Science Degree from Texas Christian University in 1974. He worked as a computer programmer and systems analyst prior to entering law school in 1974.[2][3]
He has received an American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Contracts and Federal Courts.
He is primarily assigned patent lawsuits in the US district court. [4]