EVELYN V. KEYES 3655 PIPING ROCK HOUSTON, TEXAS 77027 (TEL.) (713) 256-4180 (CELL) (FAX) (713) 552-9845 email: evkeyes@gmail.com COURT OF APPEALS, FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS 301 FANNIN, STE. 214, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002-2097 TEL. (713) 274-2729 evelyn.keyes@txcourts.gov http://www.evelyn.keyes@txcourts.gov Justice, Texas Court of Appeals, First District May 2002- present (appointed by Governor Rick Perry, May, 2002; elected to 2-year remainder of predecessor s term, Nov., 2002; elected to full 6-year terms, Nov. 2004, Nov. 2010); intermediate appellate court with general jurisdiction (civil; criminal; probate; family); Chief of Panel C Special Assistant Attorney General, 2000-2001 (Special Assistant to Texas Attorney General John Cornyn for complex and class action litigation) Partner, Clements, O Neill, Pierce, Nickens & Wilson, LLP, 1996-2000: Of Counsel, 2001-2002; Associate, Clements, O Neill, 1993-95; Porter & Clements 1988-1993 (predecessor firm) (trial and appellate complex civil litigation, federal and state, plaintiff and defense) Admitted: Texas State Bar 1988; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1988; U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, 2000; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1989; U.S. Supreme Court 1991 Visiting Distinguished Lecturer, Rice University, philosophy of law, spring 2013 (Phil. 116, Introduction to Legal Philosophy) Legal Associations: American Bar Foundation (Fellow);Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow) (nominating committee 2011-present); Houston Bar Foundation (Life Fellow) American Law Institute (ALI) (elected May, 2006); Projects: Principles of Governmental Ethics (adviser; 2010-present); Principles of Election Law (consultant; 2011-present) American Judicature Society (AJS) (National Advisory Council 2011-present; Center for Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee 2011-present)
Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) (Program Planning Comm. 2010-2011) State Bar of Texas Judicial Section (Board of Directors 2010-present; chair By- Laws Committee 2012-present; Judicial Ethics Committee 2011-present) State Bar of Texas (Standing Committee on Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, 2012-present; Standing Committee on Court Rules, 2006-2012, chair appellate subcommittee 2009-2012, co-chair appellate subcommittee 2008-2009) Rice University Law Alumni (RULA) Advisory Board (2013-present) Texas Center for the Judiciary (Judicial Resources Committee 2009-2012) Texas State Bar College Houston Bar Association (frequent member Administration of Justice Committee 2005-2012; Judicial Polls Committee 2010-2011) University of Houston Law Center (Clerkship Committee (2009-2012); Law Alumni Board of Directors (1990-96); Law Review Alumni Board of Directors (1988-1990); occasional guest lecturer on jurisprudence) American Bar Association (ABA Young Lawyers Division Ethics Comm. Chair, 1989-91) Phi Delta Phi legal honor society Martindale-Hubbell rating: AV (highest) Philosophical Associations: Houston Philosophical Society (long-range planning committee (2010-2013; chair, 2010-2011); president (2009-2010); vice-president (2008-2009); recording secretary, 2006-2008; membership committee (2006-2007); executive committee, 2004-2013) Federalist Society (2000-present) American Philosophical Association (2001-2005?) 2
Education: University of Houston Law Center: J.D., cum laude Chief Articles Editor, Houston Law Review; Order of the Coif; Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award; Distinguished Service Award; award for best interdisciplinary comment; Order of the Barons; Phi Delta Phi; University Fellowship; Intern to Judge Carolyn Dineen King, 5th Cir. Ct. App. Rice University, M.A., Ph.D. (Philosophy): University Fellowship; dissertation, Moral Choice, nominated for best dissertation in humanities (Committee: Profs. Baruch Brody (chair); Larry Temkin; Stephen Klineberg) University of Texas, M.A., Ph.D. (English): Woodrow Wilson Fellow; University Fellowship; Fulbright Fellowship for study in France (declined); dissertation: Yeats Early Drama: The Countess Kathleen in Context Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University: B.A., magna cum laude Honors in English; distinction on comprehensive exams; high honors on honors thesis on William Blake s The Four Zoas ; Phi Beta Kappa; Tulane Scholars & Fellows; Junior Year Abroad University of Paris Judicial Statistics Over 1500 total opinions (800 majority opinions on the merits; 24 concurrences; 86 dissents; 10 concurrence/dissent) Publications Judicial Strategy and Legal Reason, 44:2 Indiana Law Review (2011) 357-93. The Just Society and the Liberal State: Classical and Contemporary Liberalism and the Problem of Consent, 9: 1 Georgetown J. of Law and Public Policy 1 (Winter 2011) Two Conceptions of Judicial Integrity: Traditional and Normative Approaches to Issues of Morality and Social Justice, XXII: 1 Notre Dame J. of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy (Spring 2008) The Literary Judge: The Judge as Novelist and Critic, 44: 3 University of Houston L. Rev. 679 (Summer 2007) Representative Democracy and the Public Trust, 10: 1 Philosophy in the Contemporary World (Spring-Summer 2003) Summary Judgment Practice in Texas: A Guide to Reform, 57: 11 Tex. Bar J. (1994) 3
Civil Rights Suits that Interfere with Ongoing State Civil Proceedings: Younger Abstention in the Wake of Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc., 24: 5 University of Houston L. Rev., 917 (1987) Presentations: Various bar association and other continuing legal education presentations, including: Mediation in the First and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals, 2013 Houston Bar Association Alternate Dispute Resolution Annual Continuing Legal Education Conference, May 3, 2013 Summary Judgments, 1 st Court of Appeals Brown Bag CLE Luncheon Series for new briefing attorneys, August 29, 2012 American Law Institute Annual Meeting panel on Legal Ethics and the United States Supreme Court, May 20, 2012 HBA Bench/Bar Program, Tips from the Appellate Bench, April 19, 2012 Alfred P. Murrah Lecture Series: The Art of Persuading Judges, moderator William Dorsaneo, roundtable participant, SMU Dedman School of Law, January 20, 2011 Tips from the Bench for Winning on Appeal, Galveston County Bar Ass n, May 27, 2010, Brazoria County Bar Ass n, April 9, 2010 Summary Judgment Checklist, 1 st Court of Appeals CLE Luncheon Series for new briefing attorneys Sept. 1, 2010; Aug. 28, 2009; Aug. 2008 Summary Judgments: A View from the Trial and Appellate Bench, HBA CLE, August 20, 2009 (with Hon. Sharolyn Wood) Going to the Appellate Court While Your Case is Still in the Trial Court: Mandamus & Interlocutory Appeals, HBA Civil/Appellate Bench/Bar Conference, Apr. 24, 2009 Effective Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Civil Trial Law Conference, Feb. 29, 2008 "Structuring Sentences, Paragraphs, & Arguments in Appellate Opinion Writing," 1 st Court of Appeals Brown Bag CLE Luncheon Series for new briefing attorneys (every Sept., 2002-2007) Mandamus: Perspectives of Courts and Counsel, HBA Civil/Appellate Bench Bar Conference, April 13, 2007 Preparing the Record for Appeal, HBA Appellate Section CLE, Jan. 25,2006 4
Why the Appellate Courts Reverse, HBA Appellate Practice Institute, May 21, 2004 Effective Motion Practice: Trial and Appeal, HBA/CLE, May 7, 2004 "Summary Judgments in the Courts of Appeals," HBA Labor & Emp. Law Section, June 8, 2003 Personal: Married to David R. Keyes, four adult children, grandchildren Member, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Houston, TX Frequent communicant, All Saints Episcopal Church, Austin, TX 5