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Earl Leroy Yeakel III
American judge (born 1945)
Earl Leroy Yeakel III (born April 18, 1945), also known as Lee Yeakel, is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Biography
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Yeakel received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas in 1966 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in 1969. He served in the military from 1967 to 1970.
He was in private practice in Austin, Texas, from 1969 to 1998. He was Justice of the Texas Court of Appeals for the Third District from 1998 to 2003 and chief justice of that court in 1998.
Lee yeakel biography
He received a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2001.
Federal judicial service
Yeakel was nominated by President George W. Bush on May 1, 2003, to a seat vacated by Judge James Robertson Nowlin.
who had taken Senior status. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 28, 2003, receiving his c