And for that matter…eat your hearts out aTm!!!
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Am friends with a few UH Law grads
all great people successful in their careers
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so who is a famous UH Law grad?
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Richard “Racehorse” Haynes
Jim Purdue (incidentally, Haynes and Purdue both are members of the national trial lawyers hall of fame; UH is the ONLY school in the country with TWO inductees)
Star Jones (TV legal personality)
John O’Quinn (trial lawyer worth many millions; UH benefactor)
Gene Green (US Representative)
John Moores (San Diego Padres owner and UH benefactor)
Ted Poe (US Representative)
Tony Buzbee (mayoral candidate and multi-millionaire trial lawyer; also my classmate)
Phyllis Frye (first openly transgender judge in the USA)
Philip Zelikow (head of the 9/11 commission)
Vanessa Gilmore (former federal Judge)
Randa Williams (billionaire)
Also, John Whitmire, though NOT a graduate, did attend for a time.
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Number 34 and rising 
Notable list. Nice
That’s a Houston # for sure!!!
Jasmine Crocket😎
Gus Pappas, mayor of Bellaire.
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We know law97 doesn’t like Whitmire. Same reason cullen1927 doesn’t. Because, get this, he disagreed with them over one issue, so they’ve turned a blind eye for all the other things Mayor Whitmire has done for UH.
Background
John Whitmire earned a BA from the University of Houston and attended the Bates College of Law at the University of Houston. He is the attorney of counsel to the law firm Locke Lord LLP. Whitmire is currently a state senator for Texas Senate District 15 as a Democrat, having been first elected in 1982 after serving 10 years in the state House. He has served as Chair of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee since 1993; he is currently the only Democrat to chair a Texas State Senate committee. Whitmire is the longest-serving current member of the Texas State Senate [1, 2, 7].
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Its doesnt say he received, earned or graduated from Bates college of law. It just says attended, that doesnt sound like he finished. But theres all this other information, which is kind of confusing. So i guess he does have his JD
Someone took the JD off…
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I also have friends (and a relative) who went elsewhere for undergrad but completed their law degrees at UH.
Attended Bates for 2 years and took the bar exam so he received his JD. That
was the law back then for legislators.
Attended, yes.
Graduated, NO.
He took the bar back when there was an exception for legislators that didn’t have law degrees to take it.
He could not take the Texas bar today.
He didn’t receive a JD.
Wikipedia is wrong.
His TX legislator page listed only his Bachelor’s degree, because that’s the only one he had.
Back then you could take the bar without a JD IF you were a legislator.
That exception no longer exists.
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Oh wow, just saw that!
Pettiness ?
LOL
Edit - It’s still there in simple wiki.
They took the JD off because he doesn’t have one.
Oh snap… Law drama unfolding…
I wonder what sort of trauma you had to experience as a kid to constantly feel like you have to prove that you’re right about all topics…
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Its gotta be some schmuck from here.