WITNESS LIST
Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee
April 18, 2011 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess
For:
Love, Roland (Texas Land Title Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allmon, Jennifer (The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops)
Against:
Herman, Guy (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allison, Jim (Van Zandt County Commissioners Court)
For:
Herman, Guy (Statutory Probate Judges of Texas)
On:
McCleskey, Gene (Office of the Attorney General, "Resource Witness")
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bailey, Charles (Texas Hospital Association)
Milam, Susan (Natl. Association of Social Workers/Texas Chapter)
For:
Garcia, Patrick (El Paso County Council of Judges)
For:
Martinez, Farrah (Harris County District Clerk)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Dahill, John (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
Jarmon, Stewart (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Parsley, Lee (Texas Civil Justice League)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Herman, Guy (Statutory Probate Judge of Texas)
Place, Allen (Texas Land Title Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Gillespie, Mark (Texas Association of Licensed Investigators)
Against:
Elkins, Keith (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)
Schneider, Michael (Texas Association of Broadcasters)
Watler, Paul (TX Assoc. of Broadcasters)
For:
Billeri, Crystal (Self)
Holmes, Elizabeth G. (Self)
Patterson, Jay (Self)
Pontello, Jacqueline (Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse (AVDA))
Sales, James B. (Texas Access To Justice Commission)
Against:
Longley, Bill (Texas Municipal League)
On:
Hecht, Nathan (Texas Supreme Court)
Reynolds, Carl (Office of Court Administration / Texas Judicial Council)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Beardall, Bill (Equal Justice Center)
Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation)
Cavazos, Perla (TX Legal Services Center)
Chapman, Randall (Texas Legal Services Center)
Danburg, Debra (Self)
Grinstead-Everly, Tracey (Texas Council on Family Violence)
Jarmon, Stewart (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Johnson, Roland (State Bar of Texas)
Oliver, Julie (Texas Coalition on Lawyer Accountability)
Pardue, Craig (Dallas County)
Parsley, Lee (Texas Civil Justice League)
Tottennam, Terry (State Bar of Texas)
On:
Torres, Betty (Texas Access to Justice Foundation)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Youngblood, Hull (State Bar of Texas)
On:
Person, James (Office of the Attorney General- Resource Witness)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Johnson, Roland (State Bar of Texas)
For:
Vaughn, Tommy (Comal County Criminal District Attorney)
For:
Herman, Guy (Statutory Probate Judges of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Jarmon, Stewart (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Parsley, Lee (Texas Civil Justice League)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Beardall, Bill (Equal Justice Center)
Billeri, Crystal (Self)
Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation)
Chapman, Randall (Texas Legal Services Center)
Danburg, Debra (Self)
Holmes, Elizabeth G. (Self)
Patterson, Jay (Self)
Pontello, Jacqueline (Self; Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse)
Sales, James B. (Texas Access to Justice Commission)
On:
Hecht, Nathan (Texas Supreme Court)
Torres, Betty (Texas Access to Justice Foundation)
For:
Lowry, Mary (Texas Council on Family Violence)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Dahill, John (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
Oliver, Julie (Self)
Vining, Amanda (Texans Care for Children)
For:
Billeri, Crystal (Self)
Patterson, Jay (Self)
Pontello, Jacqueline (Self; Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse (AVDA))
Sales, James B. (Texas Access To Justice Commission)
On:
Hecht, Nathan (Texas Supreme Court)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Beardall, Bill (Equal Justice Center)
Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation)
Cavazos, Perla (TX Legal Services Center)
Chapman, Randall (Texas Legal Services Center)
Danburg, Debra (Self)
Holmes, Elizabeth G (Self)
Oliver, Julie (Texas Coalition on Lawyer Accountability)
On:
Torres, Betty (Texas Access to Justice Foundation)
For:
Keeling, Kenneth (278th District Court)
Against:
Gray, Tom (Self; Tenth Court of Appeals)
On:
Brown, Jeff (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Parsley, Lee (Texas Civil Justice League)
Trabulsi, Richard (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allmon, Jennifer (The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops)
Dwyer, Jean Thomas (Daughters of Charity Advocacy & Social Justice Cmte)
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Knaack, Frank (American Civil Liberties Union of Texas)
Sabo, Jason (Children at Risk)
Vining, Amanda (Texans Care for Children)
For:
Doggett, Robert (Texas Housing Justice League)
Against:
Pollard, Wayne (Tarrant County Housing - North Texas Housing, TX NAHro)
Russ, Maryann (Dallas Housing Authority & Texas Housing Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Milam, Susan (Natl. Association of Social Workers / Texas Chapter)
Oliver, Julie (Texas Coalition on Lawyer Accountability)
Against:
Bell, Wesley (Housing authority of the city of Kirbyville, TX)
Cantu Jr., Blas (Harlingen Housing Authority)
Carter, Willie (Liberty County Housing Authority)
Garcia, Lisa (Housing Authority of the City of Austin)
Hill, Mary (Odessa Housing Authority)
Holston, Barbara (Fort Worth Housing Authority)
McDade, Sherri (Denton Housing Authority)
McDonald, Brenda (Plano Housing Authority)
Reed, Gene (Self)
Sherrill, Deborah (Corpus Christi Housing Authority)
Troilo III, Arthur (Self)
Villalobos, Melanie (San Antonio Housing Authority)
Woomer, Eric (Texas Chapter - National Assoc. of Housing & Redevelopment Officers)
Zappasodi, David (Arlington Housing Authority)
For:
Simmons, Hyattye (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Parsley, Lee (Texas Civil Justice League)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Alsup, DeWitt (Nueces County Hosp. District)
Hipp, Jonny (Nueces County Hospital District)
Against:
Plezia, Richard (Texas Trial Lawyers)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bailey, Charles (Texas Hospital Association)
Dahill, John (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
Yanas, Chris (Teaching Hospitals of Texas)
For:
Oliver, Julie (Texas Coalition on Lawyer Accountability)
Owens, Cynthia (Municipal Justice Bar Association of Texas)
Against:
Johnson, Roland (State Bar of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Beardall, Bill (Self)
Against:
Jarmon, Stewart (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Parsley, Lee (Texas Civil Justice League)
Tottenham, Terry (State Bar of Texas)
On:
Peterson, Kennon (The Supreme Court of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Skaggs, Jason (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assoc.)
For:
Copeland, Weldon (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Morris, Karen (Texas Court Reporters Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Dahill, John (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
Against:
Buie, R Michael (Self)
Corralez Condran, Denise (Self)
Feast, Tanner (Self)
Kelley, Jerry (Self)
For:
Copeland, Weldon (Self)
Against:
Herman, Guy (Self; Statutory Probate Judges of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Patterson, T. J. (City of Ft. Worth)
Villarreal, Celeste, Judge (Municipal Judges Section, State Bar of Texas)
On:
Turner, Ryan Kellus (Texas Municipal Courts Education Center)
For:
Letsinger, Donald (Edwards County)
Moody, Allen (Edwards County)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Shanklin, Souli (Edwards County)
For:
Grace, Jim (Center Point Energy. Inc.)
Against:
Plezia, Richard (Texas Trial Lawyers)
On:
Schwarz, Brad (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ballanfant, Burt (Self)
Burst, Mary Catherine (Houston Parks Board)
Hall, Darrin (City of Houston)
Jarmon, Stewart (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Lary, Trey (Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP)
McCasland, Thomas (Houston Parks Board)
McIlwain, Rebecca (Self; Marathon Kids)
Parsley, Lee (Texas Civil Justice League)
Rudick, Dale (City of Sugar Land)
Rylander, Candyce (The Houston Parks Board)
For:
Bain, Angeline (Self)
Cox, Gay (Self)
Fuller, Kevin (Self)
Schwartz, Julian (Self)
Against:
Graham, Cindi (Texas Family Law Foundation)
On:
Key, Alicia (Office of the Attorney General)
For:
McAnally, Katherine (Barnet County on behalf of Judge Klaegen, County Judge)
For:
Boyce, William (Texas Judicial Council)
On:
Roach, Nelson (TTLA)
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