Background
Reavley was born in Quitman, Texas in 1921.
Reavley was born in Quitman, Texas in 1921.
University of Texas at Austin. Harvard Law School.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas in 1942. After graduation, he served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946. He then received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1948.
Reavley served as a state district judge in Austin, Texas from 1964 to 1968, and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from 1968 to 1977.
He was appointed to the Fifth Circuit by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, and took senior status in 1990.
While at the University of Texas, he was a member of the Tejas Club.