Orlando Luis Garcia
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Orlando Luis Garcia | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Samuel Frederick Biery Jr. |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | |
| Assumed office March 11, 1994 | |
| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Emilio M. Garza |
| Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 115th district | |
| In office 1983–1991 | |
| Succeeded by | Leticia R. Van de Putte |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 18, 1952 Jim Wells County, Texas |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin (BA) University of Texas School of Law (JD) |
Orlando Luis Garcia (born November 18, 1952) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and former Texas state legislator.
Education and career[]
Born in Jim Wells County, Texas, Garcia received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in 1978. He was in private practice in San Antonio, Texas from 1978 to 1990, and a Texas state representative from 1983 to 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he was a judge of the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals.
Federal judicial service[]
He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on November 19, 1993, to a seat which had been vacated by Emilio M. Garza over two years before. Garcia was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 10, 1994, and received his commission on March 11, 1994. He became Chief Judge on January 1, 2016.
On February 26, 2014, in San Antonio, Garcia overturned the Texas ban on same-sex marriage, ruling that the prohibition is unconstitutional and stigmatizes the relationship of gay couples in the conservative state. He stayed his ruling pending appeal.[1]
In August 2017, Garcia granted a preliminary injunction against Texas Senate Bill 4, which imposed prohibitions against certain local policies relating to immigration.[2] That injunction was reversed in part by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in May 2018.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Guillermo Contreras (February 26, 2014). "Texas' ban on gay marriage ruled unconstitutional". San Antonio Express-News.
- ^ City of El Cenizo v. Texas, 264 F. Supp. 3d 744 (W.D. Tex. 2017).
- ^ Note, Recent Case: Fifth Circuit Reverses Injunction of Texas’s Sanctuary Cities Bill, 132 Harv. L. Rev. 1738 (2019).
Sources[]
- Orlando Luis Garcia at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- University of Texas School of Law alumni
- Members of the Texas House of Representatives
- Hispanic and Latino American judges
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
- Texas Democrats
- United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton
- People from Jim Wells County, Texas
- 20th-century American judges
- 21st-century American judges