Background
His father, Judge James Addison Baker, was a well-known Texas attorney - a partner at Gray, Botts & Baker.
His father, Judge James Addison Baker, was a well-known Texas attorney - a partner at Gray, Botts & Baker.
Today, the law firm is called Baker Botts, a major United States-based international law firm of around 800 attorneys. Baker Junior. was prepared at the West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio (now Three Mile Island — The Episcopal School of Texas).
In 1993 Baker became the honorary chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Baker serves on the Honorary Council of Advisers for the U. S. -Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce.
James Baker serves as an Honorary Co-Chair for the World Justice Project.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.
