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|name=Homer David Peeples
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office= [[Judge]] of the [[Texas]] 285th District Court (Bexar County)
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=1981
|term_end=1988
|office2=Judge of the Texas Court of Appeals for the 4th District for 32 counties: Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brooks, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Jim Hogg , Jim Wells, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, LaSalle, Mason, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Real, Starr, Sutton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala counties.
|term_start2=1988
|term_end2=1994
|office3=Judge of the Texas 224th Judicial District Court (Bexar County)
|term_start3=1995
|term_end3=2004
|office4=Judge of the Fourth Administrative Judicial Region of Texas for 22 counties: Aransas, Atascosa, Bee Bexar, Calhoun, DeWitt, Dimmit, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, La Salle], Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria, Webb, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.txdirectory.com/online/judregion/detail.php?id=317|title=Administrative Judicial Regions|publisher=txdirectory.com|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref>
|term_start4=1996
|birth_place=[[Fort Worth]], Texas
|birth_date=November 6, 1945
|occupation=[[Attorney]], [[Judge]]
|residence=[[San Antonio]], Texas
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|spouse=Emily Anne Bullock Peeples
|children=Rebekah Peeples<br>
Anne H. Peeples<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Homer Peeples, Jr.
|alma_mater=Austin College (Sherman, Texas)<br>
[[University of Texas at Austin]]<br>
University of Texas School of Law}}
'''Homer David Peeples''', known as '''David Peeples''' (born 1945), is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] presiding judge of the 4th Administrative Judicial Region, a twenty-two county area in and about [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. Peeples has served on the court since 1996. Earlier, he practiced law and was a judge of two state district courts and the [[Texas Courts of Appeals|Texas Court of Appeals for the 4th District]].<ref name=bio/>
==Biography==
Peeples was born to Homer Peeples, Jr. (1912-1962) in [[Fort Worth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100096463/homer-peeples|title=Homer Peeples, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref> He earned a bachelor's degree from the private Austin College in Sherman in North Texas, a master's degree in [[Government]] from the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]], and a law degree from the University of Texas, both institutions in the capital city of [[Austin]]. He is highly active in the local and state bar associations. He is a founder and past board member of the Child Advocates San Antonio and formerly served on the board of the child care center of the First [[Presbyterian]]
Church of San Antonio. He is a volunteer for his local [[Habitat for Humanity]] chapter.<ref name=bio/>
Peeples and his wife, the former Emily Austin Bullock (born c. 1947), have a son, David Armstrong, and two daughters, Rebekah Austin and Anne Haydon. The have a second home in Allenspark, [[Colorado]].<ref>http://www.namesandnumbers.com/colorado/estes-park/white-pages/P/130/mobile</ref>
Judge Peeples engaged in the practice of law during the 1970s with several firms, including Fulbright and Jaworski in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. In 1981, he was appointed by [[Governor]] [[Bill Clements]] to the 285th District Court. In 1982, Peeples and three other Republicans, [[Tom Rickhoff]], [[Roy Barrera, Jr.]], and David Adolph Berchelmann, Jr. (born 1947), were elected to state court judgeships in Bexar County. They are the first members of their party to hold such judicial positions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bexargop.org/history.php|title=History of the Republican Party of Bexar County|publisher=bexargop.org|accessdate=March 4, 2015}}</ref> Peeples thereafter joined the state Court of Appeals for the 4th District in 1988 and remained in that capacity until 1994.<ref name=bio/> From 1993 to 2001, Rickhoff served on the appeals court, which encompasses thirty-two parishes in and about San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tomrickhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/judge-rickhoffs-bio.html|title=Judge Rickhoff's Biography|publisher=tomrickhoff.blogspot.com|date=August 5, 2009|date=March 4, 2015}}</ref>
In 1994, Peeples stepped down from the court of appeals upon his election to the 224th Judicial District. He defeated the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Shirley Ehrlich, 138,198 (57 percent) to 104,307 (43 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 1994.</ref> A legal colleague,
Alex Wilson Albright of Austin, said that Peeples preferred serving on the district court to the appeals court: "He likes being there with the people, trying to solve problems."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/colleagues-judge-david-peeples-not-driven-by-polit/ncDm8/|title=Colleagues: Judge David Peeples not driven by politics|author=Ciara O'Rourke|date=December 8, 2013|publisher=''The Austin American-Statesman''|accessdate=March 4, 2015}}</ref>He left the district court for the second time in 2004 but still is presiding judge of the 4th Administrative Judicial Region.<ref name=aas>{{cite web|url=http://www.csoftx.com/panelist/peeples-david|title=Panelist Profile: Peeples, David|publisher=csoftx.com|accessdate=March 4, 2015}}</ref>
In 2014, Judge Peeples became involved in affairs of the Webb County Commissioner's Court in [[Laredo]] when one of its commissioners, Mike Montemayor, was forced from office because of [[bribery]]. He appointed a temporary commissioner pending the holding of a [[special election]].<ref>Judge picks teacher: Linda Ramirez named temp. Pct. 1 commissioner, ''The Laredo Morning Times,'' May 3, 2014, p. 1.</ref>Montemayor resigned on June 20, 2014, after less than a year and a half in office. He pleaded guilty the day before his resignation in a plea bargain to accepting about $11,000 in cash and $2,700 in electronics from a businessman who, unbeknownst to Montemayor, was an undercover agent of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/articles/2014/06/19/front/news/doc53a304dd1367d184738771.txt|title=Commissioner Mike Montemayor pleads guilty to bribery|author=Philip Balli|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|accessdate=June 19, 2014}}</ref>
Former state District Judge Scott McCown of Travis County, a Democrat, described Peeples as "a [[conservative]] guy. That's his reputation. But he’s fair, and he’s a judge that applies the law. He’s not driven by an ideology."<ref name=aas/>Nathan Hecht, the long-time Republican chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, described Peeples as a judicial "gold standard ... who is above reproach."<ref name=aas/>
==References==
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|name=Homer David Peeples
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office= [[Judge]] of the [[Texas]] 285th District Court (Bexar County)
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=1981
|term_end=1988
|office2=Judge of the Texas Court of Appeals for the 4th District for 32 counties: Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brooks, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Jim Hogg , Jim Wells, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, LaSalle, Mason, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Real, Starr, Sutton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala counties.
|term_start2=1988
|term_end2=1994
|office3=Judge of the Texas 224th Judicial District Court (Bexar County)
|term_start3=1995
|term_end3=2004
|office4=Judge of the Fourth Administrative Judicial Region of Texas for 22 counties: Aransas, Atascosa, Bee Bexar, Calhoun, DeWitt, Dimmit, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, La Salle], Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria, Webb, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.txdirectory.com/online/judregion/detail.php?id=317|title=Administrative Judicial Regions|publisher=txdirectory.com|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref>
|term_start4=1996
|birth_place=[[Fort Worth]], Texas
|birth_date=November 6, 1945
|occupation=[[Attorney]], [[Judge]]
|residence=[[San Antonio]], Texas
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|spouse=Emily Anne Bullock Peeples
|children=Rebekah Peeples<br>
Anne H. Peeples<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Homer Peeples, Jr.
|alma_mater=Austin College (Sherman, Texas)<br>
[[University of Texas at Austin]]<br>
University of Texas School of Law}}
'''Homer David Peeples''', known as '''David Peeples''' (born 1945), is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] presiding judge of the 4th Administrative Judicial Region, a twenty-two county area in and about [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. Peeples has served on the court since 1996. Earlier, he practiced law and was a judge of two state district courts and the [[Texas Courts of Appeals|Texas Court of Appeals for the 4th District]].<ref name=bio/>
==Biography==
Peeples was born to Homer Peeples, Jr. (1912-1962) in [[Fort Worth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100096463/homer-peeples|title=Homer Peeples, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 10, 2020}}</ref> He earned a bachelor's degree from the private Austin College in Sherman in North Texas, a master's degree in [[Government]] from the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]], and a law degree from the University of Texas, both institutions in the capital city of [[Austin]]. He is highly active in the local and state bar associations. He is a founder and past board member of the Child Advocates San Antonio and formerly served on the board of the child care center of the First [[Presbyterian]]
Church of San Antonio. He is a volunteer for his local [[Habitat for Humanity]] chapter.<ref name=bio/>
Peeples and his wife, the former Emily Austin Bullock (born c. 1947), have a son, David Armstrong, and two daughters, Rebekah Austin and Anne Haydon. The have a second home in Allenspark, [[Colorado]].<ref>http://www.namesandnumbers.com/colorado/estes-park/white-pages/P/130/mobile</ref>
Judge Peeples engaged in the practice of law during the 1970s with several firms, including Fulbright and Jaworski in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. In 1981, he was appointed by [[Governor]] [[Bill Clements]] to the 285th District Court. In 1982, Peeples and three other Republicans, [[Tom Rickhoff]], [[Roy Barrera, Jr.]], and David Adolph Berchelmann, Jr. (born 1947), were elected to state court judgeships in Bexar County. They are the first members of their party to hold such judicial positions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bexargop.org/history.php|title=History of the Republican Party of Bexar County|publisher=bexargop.org|accessdate=March 4, 2015}}</ref> Peeples thereafter joined the state Court of Appeals for the 4th District in 1988 and remained in that capacity until 1994.<ref name=bio/> From 1993 to 2001, Rickhoff served on the appeals court, which encompasses thirty-two parishes in and about San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tomrickhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/judge-rickhoffs-bio.html|title=Judge Rickhoff's Biography|publisher=tomrickhoff.blogspot.com|date=August 5, 2009|date=March 4, 2015}}</ref>
In 1994, Peeples stepped down from the court of appeals upon his election to the 224th Judicial District. He defeated the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Shirley Ehrlich, 138,198 (57 percent) to 104,307 (43 percent).<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 1994.</ref> A legal colleague,
Alex Wilson Albright of Austin, said that Peeples preferred serving on the district court to the appeals court: "He likes being there with the people, trying to solve problems."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/colleagues-judge-david-peeples-not-driven-by-polit/ncDm8/|title=Colleagues: Judge David Peeples not driven by politics|author=Ciara O'Rourke|date=December 8, 2013|publisher=''The Austin American-Statesman''|accessdate=March 4, 2015}}</ref>He left the district court for the second time in 2004 but still is presiding judge of the 4th Administrative Judicial Region.<ref name=aas>{{cite web|url=http://www.csoftx.com/panelist/peeples-david|title=Panelist Profile: Peeples, David|publisher=csoftx.com|accessdate=March 4, 2015}}</ref>
In 2014, Judge Peeples became involved in affairs of the Webb County Commissioner's Court in [[Laredo]] when one of its commissioners, Mike Montemayor, was forced from office because of [[bribery]]. He appointed a temporary commissioner pending the holding of a [[special election]].<ref>Judge picks teacher: Linda Ramirez named temp. Pct. 1 commissioner, ''The Laredo Morning Times,'' May 3, 2014, p. 1.</ref>Montemayor resigned on June 20, 2014, after less than a year and a half in office. He pleaded guilty the day before his resignation in a plea bargain to accepting about $11,000 in cash and $2,700 in electronics from a businessman who, unbeknownst to Montemayor, was an undercover agent of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lmtonline.com/articles/2014/06/19/front/news/doc53a304dd1367d184738771.txt|title=Commissioner Mike Montemayor pleads guilty to bribery|author=Philip Balli|publisher=''The Laredo Morning Times''|accessdate=June 19, 2014}}</ref>
Former state District Judge Scott McCown of Travis County, a Democrat, described Peeples as "a [[conservative]] guy. That's his reputation. But he’s fair, and he’s a judge that applies the law. He’s not driven by an ideology."<ref name=aas/>Nathan Hecht, the long-time Republican chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, described Peeples as a judicial "gold standard ... who is above reproach."<ref name=aas/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peeples, David}}
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[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Presbyterians]]