Appointment To The Court and Professional Experience
Medina succeeded Wallace B. Jefferson in Place 4 after Jefferson was appointed to be chief justice, following the retirement of Tom Phillips. Governor Perry named Medina to the court on November 10, 2004. Medina had been Perry's General Counsel for the preceding ten months.
Before that, Medina was associate general counsel for Cooper Industries in Houston from 2000 to 2004 and served on the 157th State District Court bench in Harris County from 1996 to 2000 after appointment in May 1996 by then-Governor George W. Bush. He was elected in November 1996 and again in November 1998. The Houston Bar Association voted him as one of the top jurists in Harris County.
Medina rejoined Cooper in 2000 as associate general counsel for litigation, responsible for supervising Cooper’s litigation and product-safety matters throughout the world. In January 2004, he left Cooper to become General Counsel to Governor Perry.
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