Rebeca Huddle

Huddle was born in El Paso, Texas and attended Austin High School in El Paso.^[7][8] She received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Stanford University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law.^[3]

After graduating law school, Huddle became a partner in Baker Botts LLP's trial department, focusing on civil litigation. She worked in that position until her appointment to the First Court of Appeals in Houston.^[8][9]

Once Huddle left the Court of Appeals, she returned to Baker Botts and became the partner-in-charge of their Houston office, focusing on commercial litigation and appeals.^[10][11] She left that position once she was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court.

In 2011, then-Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Huddle to the nine-member First Court of Appeals, replacing Elsa Alcala, who had been elevated to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.^[7][12] The First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals, both based in Houston's 1910 Harris County Courthouse, divide the caseload of appeals from Harris County and nine surrounding counties.^[13] They hear both civil and criminal matters and each issue about 700 decisions per year.^[14] The term of the justice Huddle replaced expired at the end of 2012, so she chose to stand for election in November 2012 to a new six-year term. She won her election with 53.4% of the vote.^[15] Huddle left the court in June 2017 (before her term would have expired in 2018) and returned to private practice at Baker Botts.^[7][10]

Huddle is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association, and the Mexican American Bar Association of Houston.^[7]