{"id":33373,"date":"2018-11-09T00:53:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33373"},"modified":"2018-11-09T00:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:53:53","slug":"thank-you-for-your-service-justice-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33373","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for your service, Justice Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It is with a touch of sadness and a bit of pride as well that I have just learned that a member of the Texas Supreme Court is retiring at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Justice Phil Johnson<\/a> is calling it a career.<\/p>\n

I’ve known Johnson for several years. I worked as editorial page editor of the Amarillo Globe-News and Johnson was chief justice of the 7th Court of Appeals based in Amarillo. Thus, he became a source for me. We developed a nice relationship over the years.<\/p>\n

Why the sense of pride?<\/p>\n

Well, it goes like this. When the vacancy occurred on the state’s highest civil appeals court 13 years ago, I authored editorials for the newspaper urging Gov. Rick Perry to look past the I-45\/I-35 corridor from where all Supreme Court justices hailed. I checked out the histories all the remaining eight justices and learned they all came from communities within that swath that runs through Central Texas.<\/p>\n

The newspaper urged Gov. Perry to look westward. Johnson expressed an interest in getting appointed.<\/p>\n

To his credit, Perry did appoint Johnson to the court.<\/p>\n

Now, I am not going to take credit for the appointment. It’s likely no more than a coincidence. After all, Johnson did have one powerful friend in the Texas Senate, fellow Republican Bob Duncan — a former law partner of Johnson in Lubbock — who very likely made it known to the “right people” that Gov. Perry needed to appoint Johnson to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

So, I’ll take all the credit I deserve for Justice Johnson’s appointment.<\/p>\n

I also want to wish this good man well as he rides off into retirement.<\/p>\n\n

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