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By Natalie Posgate
(Jan. 23) – President Donald Trump has nominated three lawyers to serve as U.S. district judges in the Eastern District and one to serve in the Western District, his office announced Tuesday. Three are currently in private practice and one works in the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
In the Eastern District, Trump nominated Jeremy D. Kernodle, J. Campbell Baker and Michael J. Truncale. In the Western District, the president nominated Alan D. Albright.
Tuesday’s announcement marks the president’s 10th wave of judicial nominees.
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Jeremy Kernodle is currently a partner in Haynes and Boone’s Dallas office, where he chairs (and founded) the firm’s False Claims Act practice group and represents healthcare providers and government contractors in federal courts throughout the U.S. Before joining the firm, Kernodle served as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice. He has also worked as an associate at Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. and clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat in the Eleventh Circuit. He received his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he graduated first in his class. He went to undergrad at Harding University.
Cam Barker serves as deputy solicitor general in the Texas AG’s office, where he argues appeals on behalf of the State of Texas in state and federal courts. Before that, Barker practiced commercial and IP law as a partner at Yetter Coleman in Houston. He also worked in the criminal division of the DOJ, where he also served on the detail to the Eastern District of Virginia as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Earlier in his career, the University of Texas law graduate clerked for two different federal appellate judges, William C. Bryson in the Federal Circuit and John M. Walker, Jr. in the Second Circuit. Barker received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University.
Mike Truncale is a partner in the Houston and Beaumont offices of Orgain Bell & Tucker, where he handles cases involving products liability, commercial disputes premises liability, energy law, toxic tort, health care liability, governmental liability, transportation and mass tort. He also serves as local counsel for cases in the Eastern District of Texas for appellate matters in Southeast Texas, and has significant experience as a mediator. Truncale has been with the firm since he began his legal career in 1985. In addition to his private practice, Truncale spent a decade serving as a regent in the Texas State University System and as a board member of the Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board. Truncale received his J.D. from Southern Methodist University School of Law, his MBA from University of North Texas and his bachelor’s degree from Lamar University.
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Judge Alan Albright is a partner in Bracewell’s Austin office, where he practices an array of complex commercial and civil matters, but mainly IP and patent litigation. Albright is not new to working in the Western District of Texas; for most of the 1990s, Albright served as a magistrate judge there. Judge Albright has also practiced at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, Fish & Richardson, Thompson & Knight, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich and Mcginnis Lochridge and Kilgore. For several years, Judge Albright served as an adjunct law professor teaching trial advocacy at his alma mater, the University of Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from Trinity University. Last year, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers.
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