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Russell Roden served as Judge of Dallas County Court at
Law No. 1 for almost five years, from April 1, 2002 through December 31, 2006. While on the bench, Russell Roden worked hard to appropriately apply the law in an impartial manner.
He was one of the highest-rated judges in each of the Dallas Bar Association’s Judicial Evaluation Polls. In
the last poll in which he was rated, Mr. Roden received a 93% approval rating in the category of “knowledge of
the law,” the highest of any of the 18 state civil district and county court-at-law judges. He also rated among
the highest of all judges with a 95% approval rating in the category of “hard-working” and a 93% rating in the
category of “impartiality”. The overall approval rating of 91% was the second-highest numerical rating of the
18 civil district and county court at law judges. In addition to the DBA Judicial Evaluation Poll, Mr. Roden was
one of only two sitting judges who won both the 2006 DBA Election Preference Poll and the 2006 Dallas Trial Lawyer Association’s
Election Preference Poll. The results of the preference polls evidence that attorneys on both sides of the bar felt they received
“fair and impartial” treatment in his court.
. Mr. Roden is asking for your support to return him to the
position of Judge, Dallas County Court at Law No. 1. During the past three years, D'Metria Benson has presided over Dallas
County Court at Law No. 1. In the most recent Dallas Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Poll, Ms. Benson received the lowest
"overall performance" approval rating of any sitting judge in Dallas County -- a mere 17%. Dallas County deserves
better from its judiciary. Please help return Russell Roden as Judge, Dallas County Court at Law No. 1.
Education
Texas Tech University School of Law, 1988, Doctor of Jurisprudence,
magna cum laude Lead Articles Editor, Texas Tech Law Review
Order of the Coif
Phi Kappa Phi
American Jurisprudence Award, Civil Procedure
American Jurisprudence Award,
Torts
American Jurisprudence Award, Evidence
American Jurisprudence Award, Post-Conviction
Remedies
Recipient, Texas Tech Law School Foundation Scholarship
Recipient, William C.
Clark Endowed Scholarship
Austin College (Sherman, Texas), 1983, B.A.
Licenses/Admitted to Practice
Texas, 1988 United States District
Court, Northern District of Texas, 1990 United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1995 United States District Court, Eastern District
of Texas, 1992 United States District Court, Western District of Texas, 1995 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1989 Supreme Court of the United States, 1995
Sample of Published Appellate Opinions Related to Trial Court Rulings
Bayoud v. Bayoud, 2004
WL 68141 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2004, no pet.), cert. denied 544 U.S. 1162, 125 S.Ct. 1324, 161 L.Ed.2d 133 (2005). | | Bench Company, Inc. v. Nations
Rent of Texas, L.P., 133 S.W.3d 907 (Tex. App. – Dallas
2004, no pet.) | | Benners v. Blanks Color Imaging, Inc., 133
S.W.3d 364 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2004, pet. denied) | | Bennett v. Security Insurance Co. of Hartford, 160 S.W.3d 213 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, pet. denied) | | Broadnax v. Kroger Texas, L.P., 2005 WL 2031783 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.) | | Burke v. Insurance Auto Auctions
Corp., 169 S.W.3d 771 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, pet. denied) | | Centre for Neuro Skills, Inc.-Texas
v. Association Casualty Ins. Co., 2007 WL 2380168 (Tex.
App. – Dallas 2007, pet denied) | | Contemporary Contractors, Inc. v. Strauser, 2005 WL 1774983 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.) | | Divincenzo v. Sears, Roebuck and Co., 2008 WL 625113 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2008, no pet.) | | Doran v. ClubCorp USA, Inc., 174 S.W.3d 883 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.) | | Doran v. ClubCorp USA, Inc.
2008 WL 451879 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2008, no pet.) | | Dyer v. Atteberry, 2008 WL 541824 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2008, no pet.) | | Fiengo v. General Motors Corp.,
225 S.W.3d 858 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2007, no pet.) | | Flanagan v. Royal Body Care,
Inc., 232 S.W.3d 369 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2007, pet. denied) | | Frazin v. Hanley, 130 S.W.3d 373 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2004, no pet.) | | Gibson v. Park Cities Ford,
Ltd., 174 S.W.3d 930 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.) | | Goodman v. Melech, 2003 WL 22351416 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2003, no pet.) | | Gustovich v. Dallas Area Rapid
Transit, 2005 WL 1793203 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no
pet.) | | Healthsouth Medical Center v. Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, 232 S.W.3d 828 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2007, pet. denied) | | Hinojosa v. Citibank (South Dakota), N.A., 2008 WL 570601 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2008, no pet.) | | Horizontal Holes, Inc. v. Red River Valley Enterprises,
Inc., 197 S.W.3d 834 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2006, no pet.) | | James L. Gang & Associates,
Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., 198 S.W.3d 434 (Tex. App.
– Dallas 2006, no pet.) | | Mabry v. Sam’s East, Inc. d/b/a Sam’s Club No. 6372, 2006 WL 2348953 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2006, no pet.) | | Martin v. Hauck, 2003 WL 1544324 (Tex. Civ. App. – Dallas 2003, no pet.) | | Mazon Associates, Inc. v.
Comerica Bank, Texas, 195 S.W.3d 800 (Tex. App. – Dallas
2006, no pet.) | | McIntyre v. Maglaris, 2004 WL 1201625
(Tex. App. – Dallas 2004, pet. denied) | | Morales v. Uptown Properties, Inc., 2005 WL 3418603 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.) | | Moreno v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 2003 WL 1908189
(Tex. App. – Dallas 2003, no pet.) | | Miller v. Prosperity Bank, N.A., 239
S.W.3d 440 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2007, no pet.) | | Mood v. Kronos Products, Inc., 245 S.W.3d 8 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2007, pet. filed) | | Nasrallah v. Nguyen, 2004
WL 1738880 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2004, no pet.) | | Okerson v. TBF Financial, 2003 WL 22348894 (Tex. App. – Austin 2003, no pet.) | | Panditi v. Apostle, 180
S.W.3d 924 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2006, no pet.) | | Peacock v. City of Seagoville, 2005 WL 564885 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, pet. denied) | | Pfeffer v. Simon, 2003
WL 1545084 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2003, no pet.) | | Ramirez v. Hariri, 165
S.W.3d 912 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.) | | Sanmina-Sci Corp. v. Ogburn, 153 S.W.3d 639 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2004, pet. denied). | | Shields v. Ameriquest Mortgage Company, 2007 WL 3317533 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2007, no pet.) | | Stromberger v. Law Offices of Windle Turley, P.C.,
2007 WL 2994643 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2007, no pet.) | | Sunbelt Services, Inc. v.
Grove Temporary Service, Inc., 2006 WL 2130144 (Tex. App. –
Dallas 2006, no pet.) | | Thomason v. Dallas CASA Property Corp., 2005
WL 1515518 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.) |
Personal
Married to Jane Roden Two daughters: Hannah (18); Kendall (15) Born: September 15, 1960, Jackson, Mississippi
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