The Honorable Douglas S. Lang (R)

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General Information

Home Town: Dallas Birthdate: 07-25-1947


Personal Information

Since October 24, 2002, Justice Lang has served as one of 13 Justices on the Court of Appeals, 5th District of Texas at Dallas. Justice Lang also serves as the sole appellate judge member of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, served as a member of the Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation from 2003 to 2009, and was specially commissioned by the Governor of Texas to sit on a case at the Texas Supreme Court.

His practice began as a briefing attorney at the Supreme Court of Missouri immediately after his graduation from the University of Missouri School of Law in May, 1972. Prior to law school, he graduated from Drake University in 1969 with a degree in Business Administration. Justice Lang began his Dallas practice in June, 1973 and was a partner in the firm of Gardere Wynne Sewell L.L.P. Licensed in Missouri (1972) and Texas (1973), Justice Lang concentrated in the area of complicated business litigation, trying law suits in state and federal courts.