Governor Abbott appoints Kent Sullivan Commissioner of Insurance
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Kent Sullivan as Commissioner of Insurance for a term set to expire February 1, 2019.
Kent Sullivan of Austin is a partner at Jackson Walker. He previously served as a justice on the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, first assistant attorney general for the Texas Office of the Attorney General and a state district court judge. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association and the Austin Bar Association and a life fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Additionally, he is a member of the Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee and Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee and previously served on the Texas Pattern Jury Charge Committee, State Bar of Texas Board of Directors and the Texas Center for the Judiciary Board of Directors. Sullivan received a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia.
Want new articles directly to your inbox?
Subscribe to our Publishing Service.
Register Today! TCJL 39th Annual Meeting & CLE on November 5, 2025
TCJL 39th Annual Meeting 2025 Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Headliners Club 221 West 6th Street Austin 9:00-11:00 CLE Growing Pains: Reviewing the First Year of the 15th Court of Appeals and Business Courts Continuing Legal Education - CLE Course #TBA Hon. Scott...
SCOTX Mandamuses South Texas Trial Court in Phantom Damages Case
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a major corporation’s petition for mandamus in a South Texas in which the plaintiff’s lawyer, operating under letters of protection, manufactured grossly inflated medical bills in a fender-bender case. In re Space Exploration...
SCOTX Rules That Produced Water Conveys to the Producer Under a Typical Oil-and-Gas Lease
In a case closely watched by oil and gas producers and surface owners, the Texas Supreme Court has decided that produced water, the chemical mix of brine and drilling, fracking, and formation fluids that comes out of the well bore along with oil and gas, belongs to...