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Charles Eskridge Nominated to Southern District of Texas

President Donald J. Trump recently announced his intent to nominate Charles R. Eskridge III to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Mr. Eskridge is a partner at Quinn Emanuel in Houston, Texas, where his practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. Before joining Quinn Emanuel, he spent over two decades in the Houston, Texas, office of Susman Godfrey.

An ALI member since 2009, Mr. Eskridge also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, teaching a course on the Origins of the Federal Constitution. He served as a law clerk to Charles Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and to Byron R. White of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Eskridge earned his B.S., magna cum laude, from Trinity University and his J.D., summa cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law. He served as an editor of the Pepperdine Law Review.

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