Evan Andrew Young (born September 14, 1976) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the

Supreme Court of Texas The Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) is the court of last resort for civil matters (including juvenile delinquency cases, which are categorized as civil under the Texas Family Code) in the U.S. state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of ...

since 2021.

Education and career

Young graduated from

Tom C. Clark High School Thomas C. Clark High School is a public high school, in the Northside Independent School District, in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Built in 1978 with five main buildings surrounding a courtyard, this school has over 120 classrooms and is one ...

in San Antonio, and then earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1999, where he graduated ''summa cum laude'' and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He was also selected as a Marshall Scholar, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from

Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...

. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2004. Following law school, Young served as a

law clerk A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person, generally someone who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court. Judicial clerks often play significant ...

to Judge

J. Harvie Wilkinson III James Harvie Wilkinson III (born September 29, 1944) is an American jurist who serves as a United States circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. His name has been raised at several junctures in the past as a pos ...

of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Associate Justice

Antonin Scalia Antonin Gregory Scalia (; March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectu ...

of the

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. Young then served as counsel to the United States Attorney General during George W. Bush's second term, during which time he was detailed to Baghdad, Iraq as part of the U.S. Government’s Rule of Law mission. He later became a partner at Baker Botts, where he chaired the firm's Supreme Court and Constitutional Law practice group. Young was a member of the Texas Judicial Council from 2017 to 2021. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Judicial service

Following Justice

Eva Guzman Eva Martinez Guzman (born January 12, 1961) is an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a Republican member of the Texas Supreme Court from 2009 to 2021. Justice Guzman is a Shareholder at Chamberlain Hrdlicka in the Houston an ...

's resignation, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Young to the

on November 1, 2021. He took the oath of office on November 10, 2021, and was elected to a six-year term in 2022.

Personal life

Young lives in

Austin Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...

with his wife,

Tobi Merritt Edwards Young Tobi Merritt Edwards Young is a Native Americans in the United States, Native American lawyer. An enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Young is believed to be the first member of a Native American tribe to serve as a law clerk of the Supreme ...

, and their daughter. An enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Tobi Young clerked for Justice

Neil Gorsuch Neil McGill Gorsuch ( ; born August 29, 1967) is an American lawyer and judge who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since ...

in 2018–19, and is believed to be the first member of a Native American tribe to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk.

References

1976 births 21st-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges Duke University alumni George W. Bush administration personnel Justices of the Texas Supreme Court Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Living people Marshall Scholars Place of birth missing (living people) Texas lawyers Texas Republicans United States Department of Justice lawyers Yale Law School alumni {{Texas-state-judge-stub

Education and career

Judicial service

Personal life

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