Frank W. Elliott

Professional Background

• Assistant Attorney General of Texas, 1957
• Briefing Attorney, Supreme Court of Texas, 1957–1958
• University of Texas School of Law Faculty, 1958–1977
  • Fulbright & Jaworski Professor of Law, 1977
• Parliamentarian, Texas Senate, 1969-1973
• Director of Research, Texas Constitutional
  • Revision Commission, 1973
• Visiting Professor of Law, The Judge Advocate
  • General’s School, U.S. Army, 1973–1974
• Dean and Professor of Law, Texas Tech University
  • School of Law, 1977–1980
• President, The Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1981–1986
• Partner, Baker Mills & Glast, 1987
• Member of the firm , Ramirez & Associates, P.C., 1988
• Dean and Professor of Law, Dallas/Fort Worth
  • School of Law, 1989–1992
• Texas Wesleyan University School of Law,
  • Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, 1994–present
• Of Counsel, Ramirez & Associates, P.C., on Litigation and Appeals, 1994–present

Professional Recognition

• Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Senior Life Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation
• Member Supreme Court of Texas Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil
  • Procedure, 1978 – 1982
• Namesake, Elliott Inn, The International Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, Texas
  • Wesleyan University School of Law
• Biographee: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in the Southwest

Education

• B. A., Mathematics: University of Texas (1951)
• L.L.B., with honors ( Quizmaster; Comment Editor, Texas Law Review; Phi Delta Phi; Chancellors; Order of the Coif); University of Texas (1957)
• Graduate Work in Law: Columbia University (1962)

Professional Affiliations

• State Bar of Texas
• American Bar Association
• American Judicature Society
• American Law Institute
• Judge Advocates Association
• International Bar Association
• Inter-American Bar Association
• Texas-Mexico Bar Association
• Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism
• Supreme Court Historical Society
• Tarrant County Bar Association
• Dallas Bar Association

Professional Admissions

• State Bar of Texas
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Military Appeals
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• United States District Court for Northern District of Texas.

Publications

• The Fractional Mineral Deed “Subject To” a Lease, 36 Texas Law Review 620 (1958)
• The Volksgeist and a Piece of Sulphur, 42 Texas Law Review 817 (1964)
• Evidence, Annual Survey of Texas Law, 25 Southwestern Law Journal 135 (1971); 26
• Southwestern Law Journal 185 (1972); 27 Southwestern Law Journal 158 (19173); 28
• Southwestern Law Journal 158 (1974); 29 Southwestern Law Journal 235 (1975)
• The Impact of the Texas Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act on Informed Consent Recovery in Medical Malpractice Litigation, 10 Texas Tech Law Review 381 (1979)
• Book Review, Wiener, Civilians Under Military Justice, 61 Law Library Journal 346 (1968)
• Associate Editor, Personal Injury Litigation in Texas, State Bar of Texas Continuing Legal Education Program, West Publishing Company (1961)
• With Hodges and Jones, Texas Trial and Appellate Procedure, West (1965); Second Edition West (1974)
• With Hodges, Jones, and Thode, The Judicial Process Prior to Trial in Texas, West (1966); Second Edition, West (1977)
• With Sutton, Cases on Evidence, West (1971); Fifth Edition, West (1980)
• With Wright, Annual Supplements for Miscellaneous Volumes of Wright & Miller. Federal Practice and Procedure (1971 – 1996)
• McDonald, Texas Civil Practice, 5 Volumes, West (1971 – 1992)
• Editor:
  • West’s Texas Forms, 20 Volumes, West (1977 -1996)
  • 11 Texas Practice, Texas Methods of Practice, West (1990)
  • 14 Texas Practice, Texas Methods of Practice, West (1996)