Dallas - Justice Jim Moseley of the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas formally announced he is running for Texas Supreme Court in the 2010 Republican Primary. Justice Moseley will be running for place 3 on the Court which is currently held by Justice Harriet ONeill. (Justice ONeill has announced she will not seek re-election.)It is critical that our Supreme Court justices have the experience to rule wisely on the issues that will come before them the work ethic to keep up with the courts significant workload and a proven judicial philosophy that values both the rule of law and the role of juries in our legal system Moseley said.
My 31 years experience as an attorney including 13 years as a justice on the court of appeals and four years service with the FTC during the Reagan administration has prepared me to be that kind of justice on the Texas Supreme Court said Moseley.
Moseley was appointed to the Dallas Court of Appeals in 1996 by Gov. George W. Bush.
In a recent Judicial Evaluation Poll conducted by the Dallas Bar Association Moseley was the highest-rated justice on the Dallas court. He has written over 1000 opinions dealing with all areas of civil and criminal law.
Before joining the court Moseley practiced nine years with the Dallas-based firm of Locke Purnell Rain Harrell (now Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell).
From 1983 to 1987 Moseley served as Regional Director of the Federal Trade Commissions Dallas Regional office. There he was responsible for enforcing federal antitrust and consumer protection laws in Texas and four surrounding states.
Moseley is active in the State Bar of Texas and has served as Chairman of that organizations Antitrust & Business Litigation Section. He also served two years as a director of the Dallas Bar Association and authors a regular column on legal writing for that organizations publication Headnotes.
He is a founding member of the
Dallas Lawyers chapter of the Federalist Society a conservative legal organization.
Moseley has been active in the Republican Party serving as a precinct chairman county-vice chairman county chairman and a member of the partys state executive committee. However Moseley draws a sharp line between the political process of becoming a judge and the judicial process involved once on the bench. Texans elect judges on a partisan basis but a judges rulings must be non-partisan Moseley said. There is no such thing as Democratic or Republican justice. My past support from all segments of the legal community is proof that I take this ideal to heart--and that I will apply the law fairly and without bias.
Moseley is a native Texan born and raised in Eastland County. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Baylor University. He resides in Coppell with his wife if 26 years the former Marian Bentley of Burkburnett. They have two children--Becky a second-year law student at the University of Chicago and Jimmy a junior at Texas A&M. Jim and Marian are members of Irving Bible Church.
Justice Moseley concluded In the time leading up to the election I will explain to voters why they should promote me to the states highest civil court. I look forward to the honor and privilege of competing to serve my fellow Texans on the State Supreme Court.
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