Overview

Ted Cruz is the chief appellate lawyer for the State of Texas. Ted is the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas and, when appointed, was the youngest Solicitor General in the United States. Ted has authored over seventy U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented twenty-six oral arguments, including six in the U.S. Supreme Court. For four consecutive years, he has won the Best Brief Award by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), for best brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. In addition, since 2004 he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches U.S. Supreme Court Litigation. Named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, Ted is a graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Law School, and, in 1996, served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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