Kevin Yeary

Background

Yeary was born in Cotulla in Louisiana Salle County, Texas, but reared in Laredo in Webb County in South Texas.

Education

He graduated in 1984 from the Roman Catholic Saint Augustine High School in Laredo. In 1991, he completed his legal studies at Saint Mary"s University School of Law.

Career

Yeary was elected to a six-year term in 2014 to succeed the retiring Judge Paul Womack, his fellow Republican. Both Harold Yeary and Yeary"s younger son, Amber Milton Yeary (born 1938), served as president of the Texas School Boards Association. Kevin Yeary"s father is Harold R. Yeary, II (born 1935), a former dentist in Laredo.

Yeary obtained bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from Saint Mary"s University in San Antonio.

In 1997, Yeary married the former Mary Susanne "Suzie" Basey (born 1969), a pediatrician in San Antonio. Together the couple has four daughters.

Yeary is affiliated with Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. Foreign a year after law school, Yeary was the briefing attorney for the late Texas Judge Bill M. White.

Having practiced law since 1991, he is licensed by all Texas courts and most of the regional federal courts.

He has argued cases before both the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court, a civil body. He has authored appeal briefs in various cases, including those with the death penalty. He has experience with applications for the writ of habeas corpus.

Since 1998 until he joined the Court of Criminal Appeals, Yeary was an assistant district attorney for Bexar County.

Earlier, he was an assistant District Attorney in Harris and Dallas counties. From 2000 to 2008, he was an adjunct professor at San Antonio College.

Yeary faced two opponents for his party"s nomination to the Court of Appeals in the primary election held on March 4, 2014. Yeary polled 600,220 votes (547 percent).

Davis trailed with 307,124 (28 percent), and Wood received the remaining 190,910 votes (174 percent).

Elected to the Court of Criminal Appeals with Yeary were Bert Richardson of San Antonio and David Newell of Houston. Yeary"s term extends through 2020.

Membership

He is a member of the Roman Catholic men"s organization, the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Lawyers Guild. He is a former board member of the Encino Park swim team

Connections

opponent:

Judith Sanders-Castro