EXPERIENCE IS IMPORTANT ~ EXPERIENCE COUNTS
Experience is important. ..... ESPECIALLY FOR A JUDGE.
If you were to hire a plumber or a painter, or a barber or a hairdresser, you probably would look for the most experienced, and you likely would not prefer the ones least experienced or who were only beginning to learn their craft. It would be the same if you hired a lawyer, or selected a doctor; so clearly it is similarly important to choose someone who is fully experienced and competent when selecting a judge; and in this race, the one candidate who meets that description is SKIP REYNOLDS.
SKIP not only has years of experience, and more trial experience than any other candidate, and more years of experience than any other candidate, but in fact [in addition to having been a college government teacher who helped influence one student to go to law school with the result that the student in question is now a justice on a Texas Court of Appeals], it turns out that SKIP REYNOLDS has actually helped to mentor and train three (3) younger attorneys who are now announced candidates for various judicial positions in this present Republican primary season; and no other candidate can make such a claim. It is probable that there has never been a primary season in Tarrant County in which one candidate could make such a claim. Indeed, this is unusual, but SKIP REYNOLDS is a candidate with unusually strong credentials, and SKIP possesses an unusual wealth of experience which clearly makes him the very most qualified candidate in the race for the bench of the 17th Court.....
SKIP is the only candidate (and possibly the only living Texas attorney) who has served as a member at various times of all three of the standing committees of The State Bar of Texas which advise The Supreme Court of Texas on the three matters most important to trial practice in Texas : Court procedural rules, and Court evidence rules, and ethics rules for Texas lawyers; and at various times in his long career as a Texas attorney SKIP REYNOLDS has served about six (6) years each, on each one of these committees.
SKIP is the only candidate in this race who is an honors graduate of the University of Texas school of law, and the only candidate who while in law school served as editor-in chief of an internationally circulated legal publication at that law school.
SKIP is the only candidate in this race who was invited by the Court of Appeals in Fort Worth to prepare and deliver to that Court an accredited Continuing Legal Education paper and lecture; and when asked to do so, some years back now, SKIP did this for free as a service to bench, bar, and community.
SKIP was asked by the T.A.D.C. well over a decade ago to run its TRIAL ACADEMY program one year. This was a recognition of SKIP'S high level of accomplishment as a trial attorney. That T.A.D.C. TRIAL ACADEMY was a very selective program that trained a small number of the most promising young attorneys from all over the State of Texas so that they could refine and improve their skills as trial attorneys; and when he was asked to run the TRIAL ACADEMY, SKIP accepted this responsibility and wrote the trial problem materials and put together and ran the program successfully. No other candidate has done this, and no other candidate has ever been invited to do this. In fact, the TRIAL ACADEMY was very selective and limited its enrollment to only about 30 attorneys per year, who came from all over the State of Texas; and the other candidates have not only not run or taught at this TRIAL ACADEMY, but in fact it appears that none of them have ever attended it.
By the way, all of this is in addition to SKIP'S service of eleven (11) years as a member of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of The State Bar of Texas during which SKIP served two (2) years as vice chair of the committee, wrote dozens of articles that were published for the purpose of educating Texas attorneys, spoke (for free, as a service to the bar association and the public) at many dozens of locations all over Texas delivering accredited continuing legal education for MCLE credit to Texas attorneys, and made audiotapes and videos that were also used by the State Bar of Texas for the purpose of educating Texas attorneys.
SKIP REYNOLDS is a candidate with unusually strong credentials, and SKIP possesses an unusual wealth of experience which clearly makes him the very most qualified candidate in the race for the bench of the 17th Court.