United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Current judges
As of September 18, 2018

United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

Section Title: Current judges
Table Section Text: As of September 18, 2018

#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service	Appointed by

Active	Chief	Senior

29	Chief Judge	Orlando Luis Garcia	San Antonio	1952	1994–present	2016–present	—	Clinton

27	District Judge	Samuel Frederick Biery Jr.	San Antonio	1947	1994–present	2010–2015	—	Clinton

31	District Judge	Philip Ray Martinez	El Paso	1957	2002–present	—	—	G.W. Bush

32	District Judge	Alia Moses	Del Rio	1962	2002–present	—	—	G.W. Bush

34	District Judge	Kathleen Cardone	El Paso	1953	2003–present	—	—	G.W. Bush

35	District Judge	Earl Leroy Yeakel III	Austin	1945	2003–present	—	—	G.W. Bush

36	District Judge	Frank Montalvo	El Paso	1956	2003–present	—	—	G.W. Bush

37	District Judge	Xavier Rodriguez	San Antonio	1961	2003–present	—	—	G.W. Bush

38	District Judge	David Campos Guaderrama	El Paso	1954	2012–present	—	—	Obama

39	District Judge	Robert L. Pitman	Austin	1962	2014–present	—	—	Obama

40	District Judge	Walter David Counts III	Midland	1961	2018–present	—	—	Trump

41	District Judge	Alan D. Albright	Waco	1959	2018–present	—	—	Trump

42	District Judge	vacant	—	—	—	—	—	—

22	Senior Judge	James Robertson Nowlin	Austin	1937	1981–2003	1999–2003	2003–present	Reagan

26	Senior Judge	Sam Sparks	Austin	1939	1991–2017	—	2017–present	G.H.W. Bush

30	Senior Judge	David Briones	El Paso	1943	1994–2009	—	2009–present	Clinton

33	Senior Judge	Robert A. Junell	Midland Pecos	1947	2003–2015	—	2015–present	G.W. Bush

Sentence(s)

Judge Orlando Luis Garcia is the Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas District Court.

final_sentence: Judge Orlando Luis Garcia is the Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas District Court.