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Samuel D. Johnson Jr.

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979

Samuel D. Johnson Jr., Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Education

  • Baylor UniversityB.B.A., 1946
  • University of Texas School of LawLL.B., 1949

Career

U.S. Army private, 1942-1945; Private practice, Hillsboro, Texas, 1949-1953; County attorney, Hill County, Texas, 1953-1955; District attorney, Hillsboro, Texas, 1955-1959; Judge, Texas District Court, Sixty-Sixth Judicial District, 1959-1965; Director, Houston [Texas] Legal Foundation, 1965-1967; Judge, Fourteenth Court of Appeals of Texas, 1967-1973; Associate justice, Supreme Court of Texas, 1973-1979

Biography

Samuel D. Johnson Jr. (November 17, 1920 – July 27, 2002) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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