Wanda McKee Fowler
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fowler@wrightclose.com
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Wanda Fowler was a Justice on the Fourteenth Court of Appeals for almost 14 years before joining Wright, Brown & Close, LLP as a partner. While on the Court she authored approximately 1900 opinions and decided approximately 3,800 more cases. In 2001, the other members of the Court elected her Acting Chief Justice for five months pending an appointment of a new chief justice and, in 2003, the Houston Chapter of the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists voted her Appellate Judge of the Year. She is a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education Seminars. Before January of 1995, when she joined the Court, Ms. Fowler was a commercial litigator with two law firms, in-house legal counsel for GTE Mobilnet, and a briefing attorney and staff attorney at the First Court of Appeals. Wanda has been included on the list of Best Lawyers in America®.
Education
New York University Institute for Judicial Administration 1998, 1999
Attorney-Mediators Institute, Inc., 1990
J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law 1981
B.A., Economics, Baylor University, 1978
Experience
Partner, Wright & Close, LLP, 2010 – Present
Partner, Wright Brown & Close, LLP, 2008 – 2010
Adjunct Professor in Appellate Advocacy, University of Houston Law Center, 2006-Present
Justice, Fourteenth Court of Appeals, January 1995 to August 2008
Fouts & Moore, LLP 1988-1994
GTE Mobilnet 1986-1988
Staff Attorney of First Court of Appeals, 1985-1986
Gilpin Maynard Parsons Pohl & Bennett 1983-1985
Briefing Attorney, Justice Arthur D. Dyess 1981-1983
Awards
2003 Appellate Judge of the Year, Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists
American Leadership Forum, Class XXVI
Certified in Appellate Jurisprudence by the Texas College for Judicial Studies, 2006
Memberships
State Bar of Texas
Houston Bar Association
Fellow, Texas and Houston Bar Associations
College of the State Bar
St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Choir, Board of Trustees
Past member of the Curriculum Committee for the Texas Center for the Judiciary
Former Chairwoman of the Annual Conference of the National Association of Women Judges