[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: September 29, 1994]
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                   RETIREMENT OF HON. PHILIP T. COLE

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                         HON. RONALD D. COLEMAN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 29, 1994

  Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to pay tribute to the Honorable 
Philip T. Cole on the occasion of his retirement. I am especially 
indebted to this individual because he has dedicated the past 14 years 
of his life as a U.S. magistrate judge in the Western District of 
Texas, El Paso Division. Judge Cole's retirement will be effective 
today, September 30, 1994.
  In September of 1994, Judge Cole entered the University of Texas 
School of Law. While a law student, he worked as a student attorney for 
the Legal Aid Clinic, a cooperative project with the Travis County Bar 
Association, providing legal services to the poor. He was employed 
part-time in the Texas House of Representatives and later as clerk with 
the Austin law firm of Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters. He also 
served as an associated editor of the Texas Law Review from 1960 to 
1962. He graduated with honors on January 7, 1962.
  After graduating from law school, Judge Cole returned to his hometown 
of El Paso. He was licensed to practice on April 23, 1962, and 
immediately thereafter was appointed assistant county attorney in El 
Paso. He left the County Attorney's Office to enter private practice in 
1964. On March 21, 1980, he was appointed U.S. magistrate in El Paso.
  Judge Cole is a member of the American Bar Association and the 
American Judicature Society, and a former director of the El Paso Bar 
Association.
  Judge Cole's success as a magistrate is based on a combination of 
profound insight and a prodigious awareness of the law and its place in 
our society. He is greatly respected by his peers in the legal 
profession. He is a man of great intellect and wit, and also of great 
compassion. Judge Cole is to be commended for the exemplary wisdom and 
dispassionate judgement that he has exercised from his position as 
Federal magistrate to this Nation.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating Judge Cole on the 
occasion of his retirement and wish him well in all of his future 
endeavors.

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