Robert Lynn Batts

Judge Robert Lynn Batts

Personal

Birthday:

11/1/1864

Birthplace:

Bastrop, TX

Date of Death:

5/19/1935

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Bastrop, Texas, 1886-1891
Assistant attorney general, State of Texas, 1891-1893
Professor of law, University of Texas, 1893-1900
Private practice, Austin, Texas, 1900-1917, 1924-1935
General counsel, Gulf Oil Corp., 1919-1923

Education

Name of School:

University of Texas School of Law

Only a large law school devoted to excellence across the range of modern legal education can offer this diversity. UT manages to do so while at the same time offering students intimate settings for study and recreation. The entering class is divided into eight extracurricular Societies, which become hubs of fun and friendship. The first year curriculum includes small classes offering individual attention, and the upper class curriculum is studded with seminars, colloquia, and clinics. Large class or small, good teaching is the norm. Student satisfaction surveys place Texas at or near the top year after year; our teaching track record is seldom matched by any other law school.

Degree:

LL.B.

Degree Year:

1886

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Court Name:

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating:

Woodrow Wilson

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

2/5/1917

Termination Date:

8/22/1919

Termination Reason:

Resignation