Justice Ann Crawford McClure, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 5, 1953 and the family relocated to Houston, Texas in 1955. In 1961, she moved to San Antonio where she spent the remainder of her youth, graduating from Winston Churchill High School in 1971. She completed her undergraduate education at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, and was graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of fine arts degree in communications. In 1979, she received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Houston School of Law and entered private practice with a preeminent family law firm in Houston. She moved to El Paso in 1983 and began a solo practice in appellate law. In 1984, she was board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in family law, and in 1987, the first year the specialty was recognized, she became the first attorney from El Paso to obtain board certification in civil appellate law. She is listed in the 1989/90, 1991/92 and 1993/94 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. In 1992, Justice McClure and her husband merged their respective practices into the partnership of McClure & McClure. She continued to maintain a state-wide appellate practice until 1994, when she was elected to the Eighth Court of Appeals. Justice McClure assumed office on January 1, 1995.
Justice McClure was appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas and commissioned by Governor Ann W. Richards to the Texas Board of Law Examiners in 1991. She additionally served as one of the original members of the Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals and as a member of the Texas Family Law Specialization Exam Commission and the Texas Civil Appellate Law Advisory Commission. Dedicated to continuing legal education, she is a frequent author and lecturer in the areas of appellate practice, family law, evidence, ethics and women's issues. As a result, she received the 2005 Gene Cavin Award from the State Bar of Texas/Texas Bar CLE. She has authored over one hundred CLE articles and published two law review artifcles. She has served as Chair of the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section, the Family Law Section and the Appellate Division of the Judicial Section. She serves as an Editorial Consultant to Matthew Bender's Texas Family Law Practice and Procedure. She has also served as a director of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists and as a contributing editor of The Family Law Forum, The Family Law Section Reports, The Texas Family Law Practice Manual and Bancroft Whitney's Texas Family Law Service.
In 2006, Justice McClure was named Judge of the Year by the El Paso Chapter of the Mexican American Bar Association. Additionally, Justice McClure was selected by the Texas Bar Foundation as the Samuel Pessara Jurist of the Year in 2005. She received the 2004 Jurist of the Year Award from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers/Texas Chapter. The Texas Center of Legal Ethics and Professionalism, joined by the El Paso Bar Association and the El Paso Young Lawyers Association, presented her with the 2004 Professionalism Award. She was also the recipient of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists' Judge Sam Emison Award in 2002. In 2000, Justice McClure received the Dan R. Price Award from the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and the Sarah T. Hughes Award from the Women and the Law Section of the State Bar.
In 1999, Justice McClure was presented the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Texas Christian University and the Civil Rights Award from the El Paso Local Chapter of the NAACP. She was also recognized as the honoree of Women in the Law of Texas Tech University School of Law. In 1998, she was selected by the Board of Directors and past presidents of the State Bar of Texas to receive the Presidential Certificate of Merit. She was additionally presented with a Presidential Citation by then-State Bar President W. Frank Newton.
A former member of the Governor's Task Force on Indigent Defense and the Texas Judicial Council, Justice McClure is a past president of both the El Paso Bar Association and the Trans Pecos Bar Association. She and her husband, David, have two children. All four are duly commissioned Kentucky Colonels.
Staff:
- Staff Attorney
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Kay Waters
Laura Adkins - Legal Assistant
- Yoly Fisher
Updated: 28-Nov-2011
