It’s been a big week for judicial nominations for President Barack Obama who, in addition to naming the Supreme Court justice, has picked five people to serve on Texas’ U.S. District Courts.
They include Walter David Counts, a U.S. Magistrate judge in the Western District, who would replace U.S. District Judge Robert Junell of Midland; E. Scott Frost, a U.S. Magistrate judge in the Northern District, who will replace U.S. Sam Cummings of Lubbock; James Wesley Hendrix, an assistant U.S. Attorney, who will replace U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis of Dallas; Irma Ramirez, a U.S. Magistrate judge in the Northern District, who will replace U.S. District Judge Terry Means of Fort Worth; and Karen Gren Scholer, a principal in Dallas Carter Scholer Arnett Hamada & Mockler, who will replace U.S. District Judge Richard Schell of Plano.
