Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity. Fellow in International Arbitration, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom; Member: State Bar Committee on Texas Pattern Jury Charge--Premises, Products Liability, and Malpractice, 2004—; Board of Regents, Texas State University System, 2007-2013; Cornyn-Cruz Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, 2012-current; Hutchison-Cornyn Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, 2009—2012; Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Chair 2011; State Republican Executive Committee for the Republican Party of Texas, 2006—2014; Alumni Advisory Board, Southern Methodist University School of Law, 1991-1996; Speaker on American court system and litigation procedures and participant in mock patent jury trial at China-U.S. Judicial Cooperation Summit in Beijing sponsored by the China Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization and China University of Political Science & Law, 2014. Speaker on environmental law at the U.S.—China Food Safety and Environmental Protection Judicial Symposium sponsored by the Jiangsu Provincial Higher People’s Court and the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court, 2014. Frequent CLE speaker on trial strategies, case investigation and development, mediation techniques, and case evaluation and settlement strategies. Speaker, Nationalization Ceremony, United States Courts for the Eastern District of Texas, 1996. President, Symphony of Southeast Texas, 2000-2001. Trustee, Houston Grand Opera, 1996-2000. President, Beaumont Heritage Society, 1994-1995. Commissioner, Sister City Commission for the City of Beaumont, 1989-1994; President, SMU Student Bar Association, 1984-1985.
