Kevin Yeary
American attorney
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Kevin Patrick Yeary is an American attorney and jurist serving as a judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 2015.[1]
Kevin Yeary | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Womack |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 8, 1966 |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | St. Mary's University, Texas (BA, JD) |
| Website | Office website Campaign website |
Background
Yeary has a Bachelors of Arts in English communication from St. Mary's University. He also has his Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University.[2][3]
Following law school, Yeary was a briefing attorney for Judge Bill White, a former judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. From 1992 to 1995, Yeary worked as an associate attorney for Hedges & Walsh. However, he left private practice to become an assistant district attorney, where he worked in Dallas County, Harris County, and Bexar County.[2]
Judgeship
In 2014, Yeary was elected to Place 4 on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as a Republican in a partisan election.[2] According to an analysis done by Ballotpedia to determine judge partisan behavior, Yeary was labeled a "mild Republican".[2] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has criticized every member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals except Yeary because he was the lone dissenter in a case that prohibited the state attorney general from having unilateral power to prosecute voter fraud.[4]