Career
A resident of Georgetown in Williamson County in suburban Austin, Texas, Womack received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1975, he received his Juris Doctor from University of Texas School of Law in Austin. After law school, Womack taught for a year at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston and then engaged in private practice for two years.
In 1978, he was named research assistant for Judge Truman Roberts of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
In 1982, when Judge Roberts retired, Womack became an assistant district attorney in Travis County. From 1987 to 1997, he was the first assistant district attorney in Williamson County, his last position until he joined the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Since 1983, he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He wrote a casebook on Texas criminal procedure.
In the Republican primary election for the Court of Criminal Appeals in 1992, Womack led a five-candidate field for the Place 2 seat.
He polled 214,415 votes (318 percent) and was placed in a runoff election with Pat Barber, who finished in a second place with polled 148,764 (221 percent), less than a thousand votes above that of the third-placed candidates. In the second round of balloting Womack prevailed over Barber, 148, 135 (669 percent) to 73,129 (331 percent). In the November general election, Womack defeated the Democrat Charles Holcomb, 2,721,048 (535 percent) to 2,368,192 (465 percent).
She finished in fourth place in the contest for the Place 2 seat with 131,609 votes (171 percent).
In 2002, Womack defeated another Democrat, Pat Montgomery, for Place 2 on the Court of Criminal Appeals, 2,463,069 (574 percent) to 1,828,431 (426 percent). In 2008, in the Place 4 court race, Womack defeated another Democrat, J.R. Molina, 4,044,788 (53 percent) to 3,340,754 (437 percent).