Thomas Royal Phillips (born October 23, 1949) is an attorney with the Baker Botts firm in Austin, Texas, who was from 1988 to 2004 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
 With nearly seventeen years of service, Phillips is the third-longest tenured Chief Justice in Texas history.
 He was appointed by Governor Bill Clements to fill a vacancy in the office in November 1987, becoming the youngest Chief Justice since Texas became a state.
 Phillips took office less than a month after CBS' "60 Minutes" ran a highly publicized story, entitled "Justice for Sale?
," which won widespread attention for its blistering critique of Texas' choice to elect judges by political party without campaign contribution limits.
 The broadcast alleged improperly close ties between several of the justices and their largest donors, who were amongst the state's most successful personal-injury trial lawyers.
 In campaigns that received national attention in 1988, Phillips and two other candidates running as Republicans won election to the Court by imposing voluntary limits on the size of campaign contributions.
 By winning, they joined Railroad Commissioner Ken Hance as the first Republican elected to statewide office since Reconstruction.
 Phillips, after serving the two years remaining on the term of his predecessor, Chief Justice John L. Hill, was elected to a full term in 1990.
 In each race he defeated one of his Democratic colleagues on the Court, Ted Z. Robertson in 1988 and Oscar H. Mauzy in 1990, who defended Texas' partisan judicial election system and declined to impose campaign contribution caps.
 Throughout his tenure, Phillips vigorously advocated a non-partisan appointment-retention election method of choosing Texas judges.
 While he was ultimately unsuccessful in this effort, like other Texas chief justices before and since, both the Legislature and the Supreme Court imposed restrictions on the amount, timing and source of campaign contributions to judges during his tenure.
Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by Ronald Reagan even before his presidency officially began, due to the advanced ages of several justices, and Reagan's own highlighting of Supreme Court nominations as a campaign issue.
 Reagan had promised "to appoint only those opposed to abortion and the 'judicial activism' of the Warren and Burger Courts".
 Conversely, some opposed to Reagan argued that he could "appoint as many as five Justices" and would "use the opportunity to stack the Court against women, minorities and social justice".
James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American author and politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump.
 Prior to his cabinet position, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015.
 A Republican, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States.
 Perry was the longest-serving Governor in Texas history.
James Miller Tunnell Jr. (June 17, 1910 – January 10, 1986) was the Democratic Party nominee for United States Senator from Delaware in the United States Senate elections, 1966.
 He served as a Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from 1951 to 1954.
 In 1951, when Delaware opted to establish a Supreme Court, Governor Elbert N. Carvel offered appointments to both Tunnell and Daniel F. Wolcott.
 According to Carvel, each "declared their unwillingness to serve if the other was chief justice", leading Carvel to appoint both as associate justices, and Clarence A. Southerland as Chief Justice.
The Chief Justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in any of many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts.
Following the February 2016 death of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court on March 16, 2016.
 At the time of his nomination, Garland was the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
 Scalia's death led to an unusual situation in which a Democratic president had the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court nominee while the Republicans controlled the United States Senate; before Scalia's death, such a situation last occurred when a Senate Republican majority confirmed Grover Cleveland's nomination of Rufus Wheeler Peckham in 1895.
 Conversely, in February 1988, during an election year, the Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed Anthony Kennedy, who was the Republican President Ronald Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court, though Kennedy had been nominated in November 1987, and the vacancy had occurred in June 1987.
Harriet Smith O'Neill (born April 20, 1957) is a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
 A Republican, O'Neill represented Place 3 of the nine positions on the court.
 O'Neill's term was to expire on December 31, 2010, and she declined to seek re-election to a third full six-year term.
 In the April 13 Republican runoff election, Judge Debra Lehrmann, a family court jurist from Fort Worth, defeated Rick Green, a former state legislator and Constitutional speaker from Dripping Springs.
 O'Neill subsequently decided to leave the court early and vacated the seat on June 20, 2010.
 Lehrmann was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to fill out O'Neill's term.
The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands is the highest court in the territory of the United States Virgin Islands.
 The Supreme Court assumed jurisdiction over all appeals from the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, a trial level court, on January 29, 2007.
 There are three Supreme Court justices who are each appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Legislature for a ten-year term.
 Appointments are for life.
 The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices.
 There is no intermediate court of appeals, and the Supreme Court does not have discretion in hearing appeals.
 Appeals of Supreme Court decisions were heard by writ of certiorari by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit until December 29, 2012, but since then they have been heard by the United States Supreme Court.
The Jay Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to 1795, when John Jay served as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
 Jay served as Chief Justice until his resignation, at which point John Rutledge took office as a recess appointment.
 The Supreme Court was established in Article III of the United States Constitution, but the workings of the federal court system were largely laid out by the Judiciary Act of 1789, which set the size of the Supreme Court at six seats.
 The court had its first public session in February 1790, but did not decide its first case until 1791.
 The court met first in New York City, but moved with the rest of the federal government to Philadelphia in 1791.
 In addition to their duties as a court, each justice spent much of his time riding circuit outside of the capital.
 The court decided relatively few cases, and perhaps the most important legacy of the court was its refusal to issue an advisory opinion sought by President George Washington, establishing a precedent that the court only hears cases and controversies.
 The relative unimportance of the Supreme Court at this time is perhaps best exemplified by the fact that Jay, the sitting Chief Justice, traveled to the United Kingdom in 1794 to negotiate the Jay Treaty for the Washington Administration.
The Supreme Court is composed of the Chief Justice, twenty Justices.
 The Chief Justice is appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council.
 S/he is appointed from among the justices having at least three years as a Supreme Court justice.
 Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President of Nepal on the recommendation of the Judicial Council.
 The Chief Justice and the justices of the Supreme Court have to be confirmed by the Parliamentary Hearing Committee before they can be appointed by the President.
 The administrative head of the Supreme Court is the Chief Registrar.
 In addition to the Chief Registrar, one Registrar and four Joint-Registrar are appointed to led different departments of the Supreme Court and offer administrative assistance to the Court.
 Officers of the Supreme Court are appointed by Government of Nepal under the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission.

Question: Who did the 47th Governor appoint as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas?
Answer: Judge Debra Lehrmann