EXPERIENCED

• 12 years Civil District Court judge

• Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Law,
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
• Prior to the bench, Partner in respected
litigation firm
• Former Adjunct Professor at University
of Houston Law Center
RESPECTED
• Winner 2010 Houston Bar Association
Judicial Qualifications Poll by almost 5 to
1 over her opponent.
• Consistently rated “Outstanding” in the
HBA Polls Ratings.
• Recognized by peers with election to the
American Board of Trial Advocates.
• Nominated “Trial Judge of the Year”
by Texas Association of Civil Trial and
Appellate Specialists
• Trial Judge of the Year, Houston Police
Officers Union, Local 2
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
• Member, Pattern Jury Charge Committee
• Member, State Bar Jury Service
Committee
• Member, Ethics Committee, National
Association of Women Judges
• Chair-Elect Alternate Dispute Resolution
Section, HBA
• Immediate Past Chair, Leadership
Houston
• “Woman on the Move,”Texas Executive
Women
• Immediate Past President, Texas
Association of Civil Trial and Appellate
Specialists
• Former Member, Committee on Judicial
Ethics, State Bar of Texas
• Former Chair, Ethics Committee, Board
of Civil Judges
• Former Chair, Administration of Justice
Committee, Board of District Judges

KEEP JUDGE CAROLINE

Baker
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 295TH DISTRICT COURT
 About Judge Caroline Baker

A fifth-generation Texan, Caroline Baker has served the citizens of Harris County as
a judge for 12 years. Prior to the bench, she was a partner in the litigation firm of
McFall, Sherwood & Sheehy.
A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Texas School of Law, she
is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and was elected to membership in the
American Board of Trial Advocates, an honorary organization of plaintiff and defense
lawyers (as well as judges) dedicated to the preservation of the right to trial by jury.
Judge Baker also is a mediator, certified by the AA White Dispute Resolution Center.
Strongly committed to professional service, Judge Baker currently serves on two
committees of the State Bar of Texas and has served as a member of the Committee
on Judicial Ethics. She has previously served as Chair of the Ethics Committee for
the Board of Civil Judges and Chair of the Administration of Justice Committee for
the Board of District Judges. She also is a member of the Ethics Committee for the
National Association of Women Judges. She served as Secretary and is now the Chair-
Elect of the ADR Section of the Houston Bar Association. She has been a member and
Chair of a State Bar Grievance Committee.
Judge Baker also spends time mentoring aspiring lawyers through internships in
the court and judging mock trials and hearings for Houston law school students.
Judge Baker is a graduate of Leadership Houston (where she received the Patrice
Johnson Alumnus Award for Leadership), the American Leadership Forum, and the
Center for Houston’s Future. She has been honored by Aspiring Youth with the “Star for
Girls’ Education” Award, and was selected by Texas Executive Women as a “Woman on
the Move” and by Houston Woman magazine as one of “50 Most Influential Women
in Houston.”
Equally committed to community service, she serves and/or has served on the
Board of Directors of many non-profit organizations, including Neighborhood Centers
Inc., Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston (Former Chair), Leadership Houston (Im-
mediate Past Chair), the YMCA, and on the Advisory Boards of The Chinquapin School,
Career & Recovery Resources, Inc. and City Hall Fellows.
Above all, Judge Baker is devoted to her family. She and her husband, Bruce
Hurley, are the proud parents of three children: Grace Elizabeth (9), Emma (6) and
Bruce, III (5). She is a lifelong member of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church.

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