2. Bob Gammage
Justice Bob Gammage - Attorney and Mediator
Justice Bob Gammage is a native of Houston, Texas, and a graduate of Houston’s Milby High School. He worked his way through college, graduate school and law school and earned degrees from Del Mar College, the University of Corpus Christi, Sam Houston State University, the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Virginia School of Law. He also completed advanced legal and judicial education programs at the New York University School of Law, the Harvard Law School, Northwestern University School of Law, the National Judicial College, and the U.S. Naval Justice School. You can download Bob’s educational and legal resume here. You can also download Judge Gammage’s Professional and Civic Resume here.
Bob served with the U.S. Army Infantry Human Research Unit and the Korea Military Advisory Group (KMAG), and is a Captain (Retired) in the U.S. Naval Reserve, where he served in both the Intelligence Service and the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps.
An attorney in private practice in Houston from 1969-1979, Bob represented the Bay Area and south and southwest Harris County in the Texas House of Representatives; south and southwest Harris County and all of Fort Bend County in the Texas Senate and the Texas Constitutional Convention; and the Bay Area, south and southwest Harris County, south Waller County and all of Brazoria and Fort Bend Counties in the United States House of Representatives.
In the Texas House he was a member of the corruption fighting “Dirty Thirty”, who put their political lives on the line to take on the state’s political leadership and whose efforts led to a massive turnover in state political office holders. As a state senator he fought successfully for the adoption of open government reforms and helped make major progress on human rights and consumer and health care legislation in Texas. While in congress Bob won major battles for his constituents, including, among other items, funding for the Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Texas Children’s/St. Luke’s Hospitals, funding for NASA’s weightless training facility at the Johnson Space Center, the preservation of Ellington Field as federal training facility for NASA’s flight operations and crew training mission, the preservation of what was then the Space Center Hospital in Nassau Bay, and the nation’s first federal/state experimental geothermal well in Brazoria County to explore for new energy resources.
After congress, Bob served briefly as an Assistant Attorney General of Texas and as a Special Consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy before re-entering private law practice in Austin. In 1982, Bob was elected to the Texas Court of Appeals from the 24-county Austin/Central Texas area, and was re-elected without opposition in 1988. He won statewide election to the Supreme Court of Texas in November 1990. As an appellate judge he was noted for his opinions in defense of civil liberties and dealt with all four of the Edgewood public school finance cases.
In 1995, Bob decided to return to private life, to practice law, teach and try to do some writing, and on September 1, 1995, after exactly 13 years on the bench and nearly 25 years in public life, he resigned from the Supreme Court of Texas. In addition to his legal and educational work, he serves as a legal ethics consultant, and is an active certified mediator and arbitrator.
Bob and his wife, Lynda Hallmark, currently make their home in Lynda’s Texas Hill Country hometown of Llano.
