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

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.  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.  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. <SEP> 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.  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.  Prior to his cabinet position, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015. <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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.