HOWARD WALDROP    (b. 1930, d. 2005)

Bar Admissions:

    Texas

    U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eighth Circuits

    U.S. District Court, W.D. Arkansas, E.D. Texas

Education

    University of Texas (LL.B., 1956)

    East Texas State University (B.S., 1950; M.Ed., 1951)

Memberships

    Director, Texas State Junior Bar Association, 1959-61.

    Texarkana Bar Association (Vice-President, 1976-77)

    Northeast Texas and American Bar Associations

    State Bar of Texas (Director, 1st District, 1977-80)

    Texas Bar Foundation (Trustee, 1980-83)

    Texas Association of Defense Counsel (Director, 1970-72; 1974-75; Vice-President, 1977-80; Executive Vice President, 1987-88; President, 1989-1990)

    Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers

    Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation

In 2001, Mr. Waldrop received the Founders Award from the Texas Association of Defense Counsel.     Press coverage.

Read Mr. Waldrop's June 2002  press interview on the appointment of Josh R. Morriss, III, as Chief Justice of the Sixth Court of Appeals and the firm's history in providing four justices for the Texarkana Court.