Justice Rebecca Simmons

Justice Rebecca Simmons has served on the Fourth Court of Appeals since her appointment to the appellate court in May 2005. Prior to her appointment, Justice Simmons served as district judge of the 408th Judicial District Court in Bexar County.

Justice Simmons is a graduate of Baylor University School of Law where she served as a notes and comments editor for the Baylor Law Review. Following law school Justice Simmons served as a briefing attorney for the Texas Supreme Court. She moved to San Antonio where she practiced trial and appellate law for 20 years before being appointed to the bench. She is licensed to appear before the Northern, Western and Southern District Courts of Texas and the Fifth, Eleventh and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. In addition to her court duties, Justice Simmons has served as an adjunct professor at St. Mary's School of Law for 15 years. In 2005, Justice Simmons was specially commissioned by Governor Rick Perry as a Supreme Court Justice to sit on a pending case before the Texas Supreme Court.

Justice Simmons is an active member of the legal community. She was recently appointed by Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson to chair the Judicial Commission on Information Technology which establishes standards and guidelines for the implementation and integration of information technology in the trial and appellate courts. A former Chair of the Texas Bar Foundation, Justice Simmons is also active in the local bar community where she has served as President of the Bexar County Women's Bar Association and the William S. Sessions American Inns of Court and is currently Treasurer of the San Antonio Bar Association. Justice Simmons is an active lecturer and speaker on a variety of legal topics.