Texas federal litigators can sleep well now with the official news that the full U.S. Senate has officially blessed a trio of nominees who will fill three of the longest- pending—and busy—empty U.S. district court benches inside the Lone Star State.
By a voice vote on Dec. 16, the Senate approved the nominations of: Robert Pitman, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, to fill a Western District bench in San Antonio that’s been empty for nearly seven years, making him the state’s first openly gay U.S. district court judge; Amos L. Mazzant III, a U.S. magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Texas, to fill an empty U.S. district court seat in the Eastern District’s Sherman Division, and whose courthouse hasn’t had a full-time judge in residence in nearly seven years; and Robert William “Trey” Schroeder III, a civil litigator and partner in Texarkana’s Patton, Tidwell, Schroder & Culbertson, to fill an empty bench in the Eastern District’s Texarkana Division, which has a notable patent docket and has been empty since 2012.
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