Justice Paul Green’s Legacy on the Texas Supreme Court

After almost 16 years of service on Texas’s highest court, Justice Paul W. Green will retire Aug. 31 — the end of the current term. Affectionately known at the court as “PWG,” Justice Green will be remembered as a conscientious and fair judge, a caring boss and colleague, and an adventuresome pilot (a passion he looks forward to pursuing more in retirement with his youngest son Ethan, who himself is a burgeoning aviator).

Justice Green says that what he will miss most about the Texas Supreme Court is the “the back and forth” between the justices in conferences. As the second-most senior member of the court, Justice Green has certainly seen his fair share of the “back and forth.” And he has often delivered the final word. Since joining the Court in 2005, Justice Green has authored 99 majority opinions, along with a number of concurrences and dissents, in some of the most important cases in Texas jurisprudence.