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P.O. Box 2224
Houston TX 77252
713 979-6515 phone
713 523-5295 fax
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ABOUT JUSTICE JAMISON
Martha Hill Jamison was born to be a judge and community leader. She comes from a family dedicated to public service. It is no surprise that, as a District Judge, Justice Jamison has served her fellow judges as Civil Administrative Judge, Chair of the Legislative Committee, Board Member of the American Judicature Society, and Member of the State Bar of Texas Task Force on Court Reorganization and member of the Harris County Juvenile Board.
It is no surprise, either, that Justice Jamison serves her community as a Member of the Young Life Regional Steering Committee, member of the US affiliate for Casa Hogar MAMi (Casa MAMi MX), an orphanage in Reynosa, Mexico, Sunday School teacher to young marrieds at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, and Fellow of Class XXV of the American Leadership Forum.
Justice Jamison’s maternal grandfather was Mayor of Olney, Texas. Her paternal grandfather ran for Gregg County Commissioner. Her mother has been very involved in community service in Houston and Austin, from the Bluebird Circle Clinic for Pediatric Neurology in Houston, and the Settlement Club in Austin, to helping to start the Young Life ministry in both cities. Martha’s two siblings, husband, children and in-laws also participate actively in civic and community affairs.
Justice Jamison’s father, the late John L. Hill, Jr., served the State of Texas in an extraordinary fashion. It has been said that he packed several lifetimes of personal and professional achievements into his 83 years. He was the only person in the history of Texas to serve as secretary of state, attorney general and chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He is sorely missed by the family.
Justice Jamison was appointed to the 164th District Court in 1999. She defeated four challengers in the Republican primary in 2000 and was re-elected in the November 2000 election and 2004. Judge Jamison lost re-election in 2008 by only 3500 votes out of 1.1 million cast. Judge Jamison’s tenure on the bench has been measured by high marks in the annual HBA Judicial Qualifications Polls and by many decisions affirmed by the appellate courts.
Justice Jamison graduated from Memorial High School in Houston (1970) and the University of Texas at Austin (Bachelor of Journalism, 1973), where she was named the Outstanding Woman Student and was in the first class of Friars (the oldest honorary organization at UT) to admit women. She was deputized to convince several Friar alums not to boycott the organization due to the admission of women. The diplomacy was successful!
Justice Jamison also served on a Title IX Task Force at UT in the 1970s to plan for the inclusion of women’s athletics in a more meaningful (and legal) way. The Task Force could not even imagine how UT and the coaches and athletes to come would exceed their wildest dreams of inclusion and achievement! Before Title IX, fewer than 32,000 women participated in college sports; today that number exceeds 150,000.
Title IX was part of the Educational Amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was enacted in 1972. UT established the Task Force and founded a women’s athletic department in 1973.
Justice Jamison earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1977 from the University of Texas School of Law. She is board certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. For ten years immediately before taking the bench, Judge Jamison was a highly sought-after commercial mediator and a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. Prior to establishing her mediation practice, Judge Jamison practiced at the firm now known as Locke, Lord, Bissell, and Liddell and was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Texas.