Don Willett

Don R. Willett is a Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry on August 24, 2005, to fill the vacancy created when former Justice Priscilla Owen joined the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Willett was elected on November 7, 2006, and reelected on November 6, 2012, to a sixyear term that ends December 31, 2018.

A native Texan, Willett was born and raised in Talty in Kaufman County. His father died at the age of forty, when Willett was six, and he and his older sister were reared by their mother, Doris, who waited tables to support the family. Neither of Willetts parents finished high school. Willett attended public schools in Forney in Kaufman County, having graduated in 1984, and then became his familys first college graduate.

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