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elcome to the Texas Center for the Judiciary, the primary provider of specialized judicial education and training for Texas appellate, district, and county court-at-law judges.
The Texas Center for the Judiciary was established in 1973 by the members of the Judicial Section of the State Bar of Texas to provide continuing judicial education programs for the state’s judiciary and supportive personnel. Since that time, the Texas Center has offered continuing educational programs for judges, court support personnel, district and county clerks, appellate clerks, administrative law judges, and multi-disciplinary groups.
The Texas Center pursues its mission, Judicial Excellence Through Education, by providing leadership in education and training so that a qualified and knowledgeable judiciary may administer justice with fairness, efficiency, and integrity. The Texas Center has been recognized nationally, as well as by the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Texas, and the State Bar of Texas for excellence in judicial education.
 The goal of continuing judicial education is to maintain and improve the professional competency of all judicial branch employees and enhance the performance of the judicial system as a whole. Our website is designed to promote that goal. We welcome you and trust you will find these resources useful.
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Truman Ernest Roberts (1917-1993)
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, 1971-1982
Truman Ernest Roberts was born August 26, 1917, in Crawford, Texas. He enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army in 1940, and served for six years throughout WWII. By the time he was discharged in 1946, he had risen to the rank of captain. He was married in 1947, and graduated from Baylor University School of Law in 1949.
Roberts served as Hamilton County attorney from 1950 to 1956. From 1957 to 1961, he served as district attorney for the district comprising Hamilton, Bosque, Comanche, and Coryell counties. He served as presiding judge of the Fifty-second State Judicial District Court from 1961 to 1970.
Roberts was elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 1970 and was reelected in 1976, serving a total of 12 years on the court before retiring in 1982. He served on various Texas State Bar committees, on the executive committee of the Governor's Criminal Justice Council, and on the Texas Senate Advisory Committee on Youth Affairs. He was named outstanding lawyer by his alma mater in 1973.
Roberts died March 17, 1993, in Hamilton, Texas. He was buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin next to his wife of forty-five years, who had preceded him in death by several weeks.
Information courtesy the Justices of Texas Project, Tarleton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin. |
Dear Judges:
I am delighted to have assumed the responsibilities as your Executive Director of the Texas Center for the Judiciary. I wish to thank my predecessor, Mari Kay Bickett, for her many years of service to the Center. With the help of the outstanding and dedicated staff of the Center I look forward to working closely with you to provide the best judicial education possible and to increase the resources available to you as judges. I welcome your input and look forward to listening to you about the programs and measures you believe would enhance your ability to be better judges. This is your Center and my pledge is to partner with you, as well as our distinguished and very capable Board and Committees, our grantors and contributors, and the many external resources available to us to build on the Center's tradition of Judicial Excellence through Education while enhancing the Center's transparency, communication and accountability. I hope to see you at the annual conference in Corpus Christi from September 21 through 24. In the meantime, the Center has an open door policy and we invite you to stop by to visit anytime you are in Austin.
Best Regards,
Randy Sarosdy
Executive Director
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