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Jesse F. McClure III (born 1972) is a Judge of the
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Biography

McClure graduated from
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in Tempe,
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, received his
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, with honors, from the
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, and his
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from the
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. He spent the 1992–1993 academic year at the
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near
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Legal career

McClure began his career as an associate with Brown McCarroll and Oaks Hartline, and then served as an Assistant District Attorney for
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. He was briefly an attorney at the
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, and then became a special prosecutor for the
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State court service

In 2019, Governor Greg Abbott appointed McClure to the trial court bench in Harris County. He was elevated to the
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in December 2020. He is the first African American judge on the court since 1998, and the third African American judge on the court in Texas history. Judge McClure was elected to a full term in 2022, recording the largest margin of victory by percentage of any statewide candidate on the ballot. McClure is also the sixth African American to hold statewide office in Texas overall following Louis Sturns, Morris Overstreet, Michael Williams, Wallace Jefferson and Dale Wainwright.


See also

* List of African-American jurists *
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