Once Huddle left the Court of Appeals, she returned to Baker Botts and became the partner-in-charge of their Houston office, focusing on commercial litigation and appeals.[10][11] She left that position once she was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court.
State court service
In 2011, then-Texas GovernorRick Perry appointed Huddle to the nine-member First Court of Appeals, replacing Elsa Alcala, who had been elevated to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.[7][12] The First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals, both based in Houston's 1910 Harris County Courthouse, divide the caseload of appeals from Harris County and nine surrounding counties.[13] They hear both civil and criminal matters and each issue about 700 decisions per year.[14] The term of the justice Huddle replaced expired at the end of 2012, so she chose to stand for election in November 2012 to a new six-year term. She won her election with 53.4% of the vote.[15] Huddle left the court in June 2017 (before her term would have expired in 2018) and returned to private practice at Baker Botts.[7][10]
Huddle is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association, and the Mexican American Bar Association of Houston.[7]
^Texas Office of Court Administration (January 31, 2020). "FY19 Annual Statistical Report"(PDF). Texas Judicial Branch. Archived(PDF) from the original on October 16, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
^"Rebeca Huddle". Ballotpedia. Archived from the original on November 3, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
