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Jose Rolando Olvera, Jr.
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Active service.
Confirmed 100 to 0Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- January 7, 2015
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- January 21, 2015
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), February 26, 2015
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 100 to 0
- Confirmed
- May 21, 2015
- Commissioned
- August 4, 2015
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1963, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
All judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Private practice, McAllen, Texas, 1990-1993
- Private practice, Brownsville, Texas, 1994-2000, 2003-2004, 2007-2008
- Judge, Texas District Court, Three Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Judicial District, 2001-2002
- Judge, Texas District Court, One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Judicial District, 2005-2006
- Judge, Brownsville [Texas] Municipal Court, 2007-2008
- Judge, Texas District Court, Four Hundred and Forty-Fifth Judicial District, 2009-2015
- Presiding judge, Fifth Administrative Judicial Region of Texas, 2011-2015
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