[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 103 (Friday, June 20, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1307-E1308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           RECOGNIZING THE HONORABLE ANDREW L. JEFFERSON, JR.

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                             HON. AL GREEN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 20, 2008

  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, it is my privilege to recognize 
a distinguished academic, activist, and advocate, my friend, the 
Honorable Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr. The passage of H. Res. 31, which 
recognizes the Honorable Andrew L. Jefferson on the occasion of the 
establishment of The Andrew L. Jefferson Endowment for Trial Advocacy 
at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, is a 
fitting tribute to a man whose life exemplifies excellence and 
integrity.
  The Honorable Andrew L. Jefferson, a native of Dallas, Texas, 
graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1959 after 
earning his Bachelor's degree from Texas Southern University, was 
president of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and became a partner with the 
law firm of Washington and Jefferson in Houston, Texas.
  He served as an assistant criminal district attorney for Bexar 
Country, a chief assistant United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Texas, and a trial counsel and labor relations counsel for 
Humble Oil and Refining Company. In 1970, Judge Jefferson was appointed 
to preside over the Court of Domestic Relations number 2 for Harris 
County. In 1974, he was elected to Judge of the 208th District Court.
  In 1975, he decided to re-enter the active practice of law and was 
admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for Fifth, Sixth and 
Eleventh Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States of 
America. A long time active committee member of the State bar,

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Judge Andrew L. Jefferson is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a 
member of American Bar Foundation, the Texas Trial Lawyer's 
Association, Texas Constitutional Revision Commission.
  A former chairman of the board of the Houston Branch of the Federal 
Reserve Bank and of the Texas Southern University Foundation, he is a 
life member of the Houston Area Urban League and the National 
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A learned legal 
scholar and committed public servant, Andrew L. Jefferson has devoted a 
life-time working to strengthen and uphold the laws of this great 
country.
  I commend my colleague Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee for 
introducing this resolution which honors an outstanding Texan and 
American.

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