Service to the Community

  • 2010 - present, Austin College "L" Alumni Association Board of Directors

  • 2019, “The Road to the Federal Constitution,” Teachers for Texas Continuing Education Conference

  • 2018, Collegiate Mock Trial Judge, “Kangaroo Brawl,” Austin College

  • 2002 - 2015 & 2022, Academic State Meet Judge, Debate, Public Speaking, & Journalism, University Interscholastic League

  • 2004 - 2009, Texarkana Teen Court Advisory Board of Directors (Chair, 2008 - 2009)

  • 2003 - 2009, Volunteer Judge, Texarkana Teen Court

  • 2001 - 2002, Longview Teen Court Advisory Board of Directors

  • 1999 - 2002, Volunteer Judge, Longview Teen Court

Service to the Bar

  • December 9, 2022, “Felony Judges Panel,” Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.

  • September 28, 2022, “Plumbing Problems at the United States Supreme Court,” Texas Association of Paralegals seminar

  • November 12, 2021, “Juvenile Caselaw Update,” Tarrant County Juvenile Law Conference

  • December 11, 2019, “Juvenile Appeals,” Victoria, Texas, Juvenile Law Conference

  • June 14, 2018, “Expunctions & Nondisclosures in Tarrant County,” L. Clifford Davis Bar Association

  • March 18, 2018, “The October 2017 Term of the United States Supreme Court,” L. Clifford Davis Bar Association

  • January 26, 2017, “Expunctions, Nondisclosures, & Extradition Issues for the Immigrant Community,” Mexican-American Bar Association

  • October 31, 2016, “Student Constitutional Rights after Tinker,” North Side High School, Fort Worth I.S.D.

  • May 29, 2014, “Viewing Trial Through an Appellate Lens,” Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office

  • 2008 - 2023, CLE Planning Committee, Dr. Kenneth Street Law Symposium, Austin College

  • 2007 - present, author, Annual Survey of the U.S. Supreme Court's Criminal Case Decisions

  • 2005 - 2009, Board Member, Texas Association of Appellate Court Attorneys (President, 2008 - 2009)

  • Member of the Appellate, Judicial, and Juvenile Law Sections of the State Bar of Texas

 
 

Inspiring Teachers

Andy speaks to high school government teachers about the “Road to the Federal Constitution” at the Teachers for Texas Conference in 2019.

 

Discussing the

First Amendment

Andy talks with students at North Side High School about Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), a seminal case in United States Supreme Court’s First Amendment jurisprudence.