In a significant move to address Harris County's burgeoning legal demands, the Harris County Commissioners Court voted 3-1, with one abstaining, to request that state lawmakers create five additional civil district courts. Judge Beau A. Miller, presiding judge of the 190th Judicial District Court, championed the initiative to expand the county's civil courts.
Judge Miller invited UHLC Student Bar Association President Duncan Reedyk and the two other SBA presidents from South Texas College of Law and Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law to each give a one-minute speech at the February 28 Commissioners Court meeting before the vote. Reedyk was instrumental in getting all three local SBA presidents to participate.
“Bringing all three Houston law schools together was crucial, not only for the greater good of the Houston legal community but also to bolster the proposal’s significance before the Commissioners,” Reedyk said. “A unified front, with UHLC, STCL, and TMSL speaking together, sent a far more powerful message than just one or two law schools advocating alone.”
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