Tim Curry (attorney)

Tim Curry
District Attorney of Tarrant County, Texas
In office
1972–2009
Personal details
Born Timothy Cullen Curry
September 18, 1938
Tulia, Swisher County
Texas, USA
Died April 24, 2009(2009-04-24) (aged 70)
Fort Worth, Texas
Political party Democrat-turned-Republican (1990)
Alma mater

Texas Christian University

Baylor Law School
Occupation Lawyer

Timothy Cullen Curry (September 18, 1938 – April 24, 2009) was an American attorney who served as the District Attorney of Tarrant County, Texas from 1972 until his death in 2009.

Curry was selected to run for District Attorney of Tarrant County after the original choice for nominee backed out just before the 1972 election. Curry was 33 years old when he was first elected.[1] Curry was first elected as a Democrat but switched to the Republican Party in 1990, along with other Tarrant County elected officials who followed a change in the political leanings there. Curry died on April 24, 2009, at the age of seventy of complications of brain and stomach cancer.[2]

The Tarrant County justice center was renamed to Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center shortly after his death.[3]

Curry was the prosecutor in the trial of oilman T. Cullen Davis.

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