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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Thomas Emmett "Tom" Rickhoff
|image =
|caption=
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office=[[Judge]] of the Texas 289th District Court (Bexar County)
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=1981
|term_end=1993
|preceded=
|succeeded=Carmen Kelsey
|office2=Judge of the Texas Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal for 32 counties south and west of [[San Antonio]]
|term_start2=January 1993
|term_end2=2001
|preceded2=Ron Carr
|succeeded2=Sandee Bryan Marion
|office3=Judge of the Bexar County [[Probate Court]]
|term_start3=2001
|term_end3=
|preceded3=
|succeeded3=Incumbent
|birth_place=Bayview, Kootenai County<br>[[Idaho]]
|birth_date=July 13, 1944
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|occupation=[[Attorney]], [[Professor]], Judge<br>
Captain in the [[United States Army]]<br>
Lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve
|residence=[[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|spouse=Carol Mumford Rickhoff (married 1970)
|children=Five children
|parents=Leo John and Lela Doerr Rickhoff
|relations=Gerard C. "Gerry" Rickhoff (brother)
|alma_mater=St. Mary's University, Texas<br>
St. Mary's University School of Law
|branch=[[United States Army]]<br>
[[United States Army Reserve]]
|rank=[[Captain (United States)|Captain]] in Army<br>
[[Lieutenant colonel]] in Army Reserve
|footnotes=
}}
'''Thomas Emmett Rickhoff''', known as '''Tom Rickhoff''' (born July 13, 1944), is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[judge]] from [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. He was the presiding probate court judge in the suit against billionaire sports team owner and automobile dealer [[Tom Benson]] filed by Benson's estranged adopted daughter.
In the [[general election]] scheduled for November 6, 2018, Rickhoff is the Republican nominee for Bexar County administrative judge. He is challenging the long-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] incumbent, Nelson Wolff.
==Background==
Rickhoff was born at the Farragut Naval Training Station in Bayview in northern [[Idaho]] while his father, Leo John Rickhoff (died 1974), was serving in the [[Philippines]] Campaign during [[World War II]]. His mother was the former Lela Doerr (died 2003). Leo and Lela married in 1942 and had six other children younger than Tom: John, Lynn, Jim, Gerard, Mike, and Mary Ann. Leo Rickoff was a trial lawyer for twenty-eight years and a state district court judge in [[Missouri]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://tomrickhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/judge-rickhoffs-bio.html|title=Judge Rickhoff's Bio|publisher=tomrickhoff.blogspot.com|date=August 5, 2009|date=March 2, 2015}}</ref> Leo and Lela Rickhoff are interred at Resurrection Cemetery in Affton in St. Louis County, Missouri.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Rickhoff&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=26&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=47898046&df=all&|title=Leo John Rickhoff|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref> Tom Rickhoff was reared in [[St. Louis]] but left for Texas to attend college.<ref name=bizjournals>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/11/16/focus5.html?page=all|title=Profiles in Probate Law: Tom Rickhoff|date=November 15, 2009|publisher=''San Antonio Business Journal''|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
In 1966, Rickhoff graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Great Britain|English]] [[history]] from St. Mary's University and in 1969 from St. Mary's School of Law, both in San Antonio. From 1969 to 1974, Rickhoff was a captain on active duty in the [[United States Army]], including service in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=bizjournals/> He was a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the Army Reserve from 1974 to 1993.<ref name=bio/>
==Career==
Rickhoff was admitted to the practice of law in 1969 and was from 1987 to 2000 an associate [[professor]] of law at his alma mater, St. Mary's School of Law. From 1974 to 1977, he was an assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. He was also during this period a special trial attorney for the [[United States Department of Justice]], having worked against the [[Mafia]] in the [[New Orleans]] field office of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force.<ref name=bio/>
In 1978, Rickhoff was elected county clerk, the first member of his party to hold countywide office in historically [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Bexar County since [[Reconstruction]].<ref name=gophist>{{cite web|url=http://www.bexargop.org/history.php|title=History of the Republican Party of Bexar County|publisher=bexargop.org|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>Though Tom Rickhoff was the first San Antonio Republican in countywide office, as early as 1962, San Antonio Republicans elected two justices of the peace, Bob Strickland and Frank Vaughn, and a constable, Bill Hancock, who switched parties and sought reelection as a Republican.</ref> For his reforms in the office, Rickhoff was named "Politician of the Year" in 1979 by the defunct ''San Antonio Light'' [[newspaper]]. His brother, Republican Gerard C. "Gerry" Rickhoff, has been since 1995 theBexar county clerk, a positionearlier held by Tom Rickhoff.<ref name=bio/>
In 1981, Republican [[Governor]] [[Bill Clements]] appointed Rickhoff as the judge of the 289th District Court in San Antonio. He was elected to a full term in the office in 1982 with 59 percent of the vote,<ref name=bio/> even as Clements went down to defeat statewide at the hands of his gubernatorial opponent, state Attorney General [[Mark White]]. Three other Republicans, Roy Barrera, Jr., David Peeples, and David Berchelmann, were also elected to state court judgeships in Bexar County in 1982.<ref name=gophist/> In 1986, Rickhoff was reelected judge to a second full four-year with 65.5 percent, the largest share of the vote attained by that time by a countywide Republican candidate in Bexar County history. Unopposed for reelection in 1990, Rickhoff left the 289th Court upon his narrow election in 1992 to the Fourth Court of Appeals. He unseated the Democrat Judge Ron Carr, 291,643 (51.3 percent) to 277,248 (48.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist5_state.htm|title=Texas general election returns|date=November 3, 1992|publisher=[[Texas Secretary of State]]|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
In 2001, Rickhoff left the appeals court upon his appointment as judge of the Bexar County Probate Court. He was elected in 2002 to the probate court and has remained there since that time<ref name=bio/> though he faced a tough reelection bid in 2006 from the Democrat Barbara Scharf-Zeldes. Rickhoff collects state retirement from his previous time on the appeals court as well as his $161,492 annual salary on the probate court. In 2014, Rickhoff took off sixty-five days of work, including time for a vacation to [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]]. Along with Polly Jackson Spencer, Rickhoff is one of two probate judges for Bexar County. There is no limit on how much time off a probate judge can take each year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/gilbert_garcia/article/Rickhoff-s-extended-vacation-on-the-probate-court-5832309.php|title=Rickhoff's extended vacation on the probate court|publisher=''The San Antonio Express-News''|author=Gilbert Garcia|date=October 18, 2014|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
===Notable cases===
In 2014, Rickhoff awarded $310,000 in [[insurance]] funds to Frances A. Hall, who is accused of having in 2013 killed her 50-year-old husband, trucking executive Bill Hall, Jr., with her vehicle while he was riding his motorcycle near his place of work. The woman was outraged over Hall's alleged extramarital affair. Rickhoff made the decision based on the wishes of Hall's adult children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Alleged-murderess-cashes-in-on-insurance-policy-5698147.php|title=Murder suspect cashes in on insurance policy|publisher=''San Antonio Express-News''|author=Patrick Danner|date=
August 19, 2014|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
In February 2015, Judge Rickhoff named former San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger, a Democrat, and attorney Art Bayern as co-executors of the testamentary trust of Shirley L. Benson, Tom Benson's late wife. The two replace Tom Benson as trustees of the estate. Benson's estranged adopted daughter, Renee Benson, and her two adult children sought to prevent changes to Shirley Benson's trust. She maintains that her father, the owner of the [[New Orleans Saints]] and San Antonio [[Mercedes-Benz]], had grown incapable of handling his financial affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Tom-Benson-not-expected-to-appear-in-court-6064837.php|title=Hardberger named co-receiver of Benson Trust|publisher=''San Antonio Express-News''|author=David Hendricks|date=February 5, 2015|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref> Benson, meanwhile, will appeal Rickhoff's decision to appoint Hardberger and Bayern as co-executors of Mrs. Benson's estate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/neworleans/neworleansnews/11636974-123/tom-benson-to-appeal-san|title=Tom Benson to appeal judge’s decision to remove him as overseer of Texas trust|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Jaquetta White and Ramon Antonio Vargas|date=February 19, 2015|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
==2018 campaign for county judge==
In the race for county judge, Rickhoff accuses Wolff of "leading a corrupt court with limitless contributions" from people who benefit from county contracts and greatly expanding debt with lavish spending on art projects. Rickhoff presented a flowchart outlining his claims. Wolff rebutted the charges as "typical [[Donald Trump|Trump]] lies. It's just one thing after another with him. He ought to be in the courthouse doing his job instead of taking taxpayer money and holding press conferences."<ref<Jasper Scherer, "Rickhoff lambastes county judge: Candidate will be facing Wolff in November", ''San Antonio Express News'', March 20, 2018, pp. A3, A8.</ref>
On March 24, 2018, columnist Brian Chasnoff of ''The San Antonio Express-News'' interjected the name of [[U.S. Representative]] [[Louie Gohmert]] of Tyler, Texas into the Rickhoff-Wolff campaign. Chasnoff called Gohmert "infamous for kooky conspiracy theories, including his claim in 2010 that pregnant undocumented women were crossing the border to give birth to 'terror babies' with U.S. citizenship."<ref name=chasnoff>Brian Chasnoff, "Rickhoff channels Gohmert in county race", ''The San Antonio Express-News'', March 24, 2018, p. A2.</ref> The notes that Rickhoff, like Gohmert, often uses flow charts to bolster his arguments. Rickhoff, however, made clear that he is no admirer of the [[conservative]] Gohmert: "I don't ever want to hear his name."<ref name=chasnoff/>
==Personal life==
In 1970, Rickhoff married the former Carol Mumford, who holds a [[master's degree]] in [[social work]] from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. The Rickhoffs have three sons and two daughters. Rickhoff's brothers, Jim and Mike, worked in law enforcement. John Richoff, Jr., is a retired [[U.S. Postal Service]] employee. His sister, Lynn, is a fundraiser for a university fundraiser; his other sister, Mary Ann, has worked for [[Drury Hotels|Drury Inn]] in San Antonio, and her husband is deputy director of the Texas Veterans Commission.<ref name=bio/>
Rickhoff formerly was a commentator for the weekly segment "Eye on San Antonio" on KENS-TV, his local [[CBS]] affiliate. He is a former commentator too on "Judge Rickhoff On the Law" for WOAI (AM) [[radio]]. He has also written various legal publications.<ref name=bio/>
Rickhoff is a [[Roman Catholic]] in the Holy Trinity Parish and a member of Rotary International. He is also associated with the Christian Pro-Life Foundation, the Bexar County Mental Health Group Home, the Children’s Shelter, and the [[Salvation Army]] for Girls.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
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[[Category:Idaho]]
[[Category:Missouri]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Television]]
[[Category:Radio]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:Pro-life]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Thomas Emmett "Tom" Rickhoff
|image =
|caption=
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office=[[Judge]] of the Texas 289th District Court (Bexar County)
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=1981
|term_end=1993
|preceded=
|succeeded=Carmen Kelsey
|office2=Judge of the Texas Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal for 32 counties south and west of [[San Antonio]]
|term_start2=January 1993
|term_end2=2001
|preceded2=Ron Carr
|succeeded2=Sandee Bryan Marion
|office3=Judge of the Bexar County [[Probate Court]]
|term_start3=2001
|term_end3=
|preceded3=
|succeeded3=Incumbent
|birth_place=Bayview, Kootenai County<br>[[Idaho]]
|birth_date=July 13, 1944
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|occupation=[[Attorney]], [[Professor]], Judge<br>
Captain in the [[United States Army]]<br>
Lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve
|residence=[[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|spouse=Carol Mumford Rickhoff (married 1970)
|children=Five children
|parents=Leo John and Lela Doerr Rickhoff
|relations=Gerard C. "Gerry" Rickhoff (brother)
|alma_mater=St. Mary's University, Texas<br>
St. Mary's University School of Law
|branch=[[United States Army]]<br>
[[United States Army Reserve]]
|rank=[[Captain (United States)|Captain]] in Army<br>
[[Lieutenant colonel]] in Army Reserve
|footnotes=
}}
'''Thomas Emmett Rickhoff''', known as '''Tom Rickhoff''' (born July 13, 1944), is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[judge]] from [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. He was the presiding probate court judge in the suit against billionaire sports team owner and automobile dealer [[Tom Benson]] filed by Benson's estranged adopted daughter.
In the [[general election]] scheduled for November 6, 2018, Rickhoff is the Republican nominee for Bexar County administrative judge. He is challenging the long-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] incumbent, Nelson Wolff.
==Background==
Rickhoff was born at the Farragut Naval Training Station in Bayview in northern [[Idaho]] while his father, Leo John Rickhoff (died 1974), was serving in the [[Philippines]] Campaign during [[World War II]]. His mother was the former Lela Doerr (died 2003). Leo and Lela married in 1942 and had six other children younger than Tom: John, Lynn, Jim, Gerard, Mike, and Mary Ann. Leo Rickoff was a trial lawyer for twenty-eight years and a state district court judge in [[Missouri]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://tomrickhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/judge-rickhoffs-bio.html|title=Judge Rickhoff's Bio|publisher=tomrickhoff.blogspot.com|date=August 5, 2009|date=March 2, 2015}}</ref> Leo and Lela Rickhoff are interred at Resurrection Cemetery in Affton in St. Louis County, Missouri.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Rickhoff&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=26&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=47898046&df=all&|title=Leo John Rickhoff|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref> Tom Rickhoff was reared in [[St. Louis]] but left for Texas to attend college.<ref name=bizjournals>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/11/16/focus5.html?page=all|title=Profiles in Probate Law: Tom Rickhoff|date=November 15, 2009|publisher=''San Antonio Business Journal''|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
In 1966, Rickhoff graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Great Britain|English]] [[history]] from St. Mary's University and in 1969 from St. Mary's School of Law, both in San Antonio. From 1969 to 1974, Rickhoff was a captain on active duty in the [[United States Army]], including service in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=bizjournals/> He was a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the Army Reserve from 1974 to 1993.<ref name=bio/>
==Career==
Rickhoff was admitted to the practice of law in 1969 and was from 1987 to 2000 an associate [[professor]] of law at his alma mater, St. Mary's School of Law. From 1974 to 1977, he was an assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. He was also during this period a special trial attorney for the [[United States Department of Justice]], having worked against the [[Mafia]] in the [[New Orleans]] field office of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force.<ref name=bio/>
In 1978, Rickhoff was elected county clerk, the first member of his party to hold countywide office in historically [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Bexar County since [[Reconstruction]].<ref name=gophist>{{cite web|url=http://www.bexargop.org/history.php|title=History of the Republican Party of Bexar County|publisher=bexargop.org|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>Though Tom Rickhoff was the first San Antonio Republican in countywide office, as early as 1962, San Antonio Republicans elected two justices of the peace, Bob Strickland and Frank Vaughn, and a constable, Bill Hancock, who switched parties and sought reelection as a Republican.</ref> For his reforms in the office, Rickhoff was named "Politician of the Year" in 1979 by the defunct ''San Antonio Light'' [[newspaper]]. His brother, Republican Gerard C. "Gerry" Rickhoff, has been since 1995 theBexar county clerk, a positionearlier held by Tom Rickhoff.<ref name=bio/>
In 1981, Republican [[Governor]] [[Bill Clements]] appointed Rickhoff as the judge of the 289th District Court in San Antonio. He was elected to a full term in the office in 1982 with 59 percent of the vote,<ref name=bio/> even as Clements went down to defeat statewide at the hands of his gubernatorial opponent, state Attorney General [[Mark White]]. Three other Republicans, Roy Barrera, Jr., David Peeples, and David Berchelmann, were also elected to state court judgeships in Bexar County in 1982.<ref name=gophist/> In 1986, Rickhoff was reelected judge to a second full four-year with 65.5 percent, the largest share of the vote attained by that time by a countywide Republican candidate in Bexar County history. Unopposed for reelection in 1990, Rickhoff left the 289th Court upon his narrow election in 1992 to the Fourth Court of Appeals. He unseated the Democrat Judge Ron Carr, 291,643 (51.3 percent) to 277,248 (48.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist5_state.htm|title=Texas general election returns|date=November 3, 1992|publisher=[[Texas Secretary of State]]|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
In 2001, Rickhoff left the appeals court upon his appointment as judge of the Bexar County Probate Court. He was elected in 2002 to the probate court and has remained there since that time<ref name=bio/> though he faced a tough reelection bid in 2006 from the Democrat Barbara Scharf-Zeldes. Rickhoff collects state retirement from his previous time on the appeals court as well as his $161,492 annual salary on the probate court. In 2014, Rickhoff took off sixty-five days of work, including time for a vacation to [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]]. Along with Polly Jackson Spencer, Rickhoff is one of two probate judges for Bexar County. There is no limit on how much time off a probate judge can take each year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/gilbert_garcia/article/Rickhoff-s-extended-vacation-on-the-probate-court-5832309.php|title=Rickhoff's extended vacation on the probate court|publisher=''The San Antonio Express-News''|author=Gilbert Garcia|date=October 18, 2014|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
===Notable cases===
In 2014, Rickhoff awarded $310,000 in [[insurance]] funds to Frances A. Hall, who is accused of having in 2013 killed her 50-year-old husband, trucking executive Bill Hall, Jr., with her vehicle while he was riding his motorcycle near his place of work. The woman was outraged over Hall's alleged extramarital affair. Rickhoff made the decision based on the wishes of Hall's adult children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Alleged-murderess-cashes-in-on-insurance-policy-5698147.php|title=Murder suspect cashes in on insurance policy|publisher=''San Antonio Express-News''|author=Patrick Danner|date=
August 19, 2014|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
In February 2015, Judge Rickhoff named former San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger, a Democrat, and attorney Art Bayern as co-executors of the testamentary trust of Shirley L. Benson, Tom Benson's late wife. The two replace Tom Benson as trustees of the estate. Benson's estranged adopted daughter, Renee Benson, and her two adult children sought to prevent changes to Shirley Benson's trust. She maintains that her father, the owner of the [[New Orleans Saints]] and San Antonio [[Mercedes-Benz]], had grown incapable of handling his financial affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Tom-Benson-not-expected-to-appear-in-court-6064837.php|title=Hardberger named co-receiver of Benson Trust|publisher=''San Antonio Express-News''|author=David Hendricks|date=February 5, 2015|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref> Benson, meanwhile, will appeal Rickhoff's decision to appoint Hardberger and Bayern as co-executors of Mrs. Benson's estate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/neworleans/neworleansnews/11636974-123/tom-benson-to-appeal-san|title=Tom Benson to appeal judge’s decision to remove him as overseer of Texas trust|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Jaquetta White and Ramon Antonio Vargas|date=February 19, 2015|accessdate=March 2, 2015}}</ref>
==2018 campaign for county judge==
In the race for county judge, Rickhoff accuses Wolff of "leading a corrupt court with limitless contributions" from people who benefit from county contracts and greatly expanding debt with lavish spending on art projects. Rickhoff presented a flowchart outlining his claims. Wolff rebutted the charges as "typical [[Donald Trump|Trump]] lies. It's just one thing after another with him. He ought to be in the courthouse doing his job instead of taking taxpayer money and holding press conferences."<ref<Jasper Scherer, "Rickhoff lambastes county judge: Candidate will be facing Wolff in November", ''San Antonio Express News'', March 20, 2018, pp. A3, A8.</ref>
On March 24, 2018, columnist Brian Chasnoff of ''The San Antonio Express-News'' interjected the name of [[U.S. Representative]] [[Louie Gohmert]] of Tyler, Texas into the Rickhoff-Wolff campaign. Chasnoff called Gohmert "infamous for kooky conspiracy theories, including his claim in 2010 that pregnant undocumented women were crossing the border to give birth to 'terror babies' with U.S. citizenship."<ref name=chasnoff>Brian Chasnoff, "Rickhoff channels Gohmert in county race", ''The San Antonio Express-News'', March 24, 2018, p. A2.</ref> The notes that Rickhoff, like Gohmert, often uses flow charts to bolster his arguments. Rickhoff, however, made clear that he is no admirer of the [[conservative]] Gohmert: "I don't ever want to hear his name."<ref name=chasnoff/>
==Personal life==
In 1970, Rickhoff married the former Carol Mumford, who holds a [[master's degree]] in [[social work]] from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. The Rickhoffs have three sons and two daughters. Rickhoff's brothers, Jim and Mike, worked in law enforcement. John Richoff, Jr., is a retired [[U.S. Postal Service]] employee. His sister, Lynn, is a fundraiser for a university fundraiser; his other sister, Mary Ann, has worked for [[Drury Hotels|Drury Inn]] in San Antonio, and her husband is deputy director of the Texas Veterans Commission.<ref name=bio/>
Rickhoff formerly was a commentator for the weekly segment "Eye on San Antonio" on KENS-TV, his local [[CBS]] affiliate. He is a former commentator too on "Judge Rickhoff On the Law" for WOAI (AM) [[radio]]. He has also written various legal publications.<ref name=bio/>
Rickhoff is a [[Roman Catholic]] in the Holy Trinity Parish and a member of Rotary International. He is also associated with the Christian Pro-Life Foundation, the Bexar County Mental Health Group Home, the Children’s Shelter, and the [[Salvation Army]] for Girls.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rickhoff, Tom}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Idaho]]
[[Category:Missouri]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Television]]
[[Category:Radio]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:Pro-life]]
[[Category:United States Army]]