Kevin Patrick Yeary is an American attorney and jurist who serves on the

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. A Republican, he was elected in 2014.

Background

Yeary has a Bachelors of Arts in English communication from St. Mary's University. He also has his

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from St. Mary's University. 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

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, Harris County, and

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Judgeship

In 2014, Yeary was elected to Place 4 on the

as a Republican in a partisan election. According to an analysis done by

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to determine judge partisan behavior, Yeary was labeled a "mild Republican". Texas Attorney General

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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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yeary, Kevin Living people 21st-century American lawyers St. Mary's University School of Law alumni Texas Republicans Judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals 21st-century American judges 1966 births