Kimble County, TX - News:  Casebier Named Judge, 1950

Monday, July 17, 2000



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  Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas

                                 Name of paper not given



                         Casebier named to Succeed Late Jurist



  Garland Casebier, 30-year old Fort Stockton attorney took the oath of office as judge

of 112th Judicial District Tuesday afternoon succeeding Judge J. B. Randolph, who died

last week.

  Judge Alan Fraser of Alpine administered the oath as friends and officials looked on.

Casebier was appointed Monday by Gov. Allan Shivers to preside over the district which

includes Kimble, Sutton, Crockett, Upton, and Pecos counties.

  Coke R. Stevenson, former governor, had presided over the district as temporary judge

since February.  Stevenson has been mentioned as a possible candidate for associate

justice of Texas Supreme Court or the U. S. Senate.  Press reports earlier this week

quoted Stevenson as saying he hadn't thought of running for anything except the U. S.

Senate.

  Casebier faces an immediate election campaign.  The term of office to which he was

appointed expires this year.  Judge Randolph was serving the fourth year of his first

elective term.

  The newly appointed judge moves up from the post of Fort Stockton city attorney. 

During the war he was assistant county attorney.  A Pecos Co. resident since the age

of 18 months, except for two years in law practice in Wood county, Casebier was

graduated from Sul Ross College with a B. S. Degree and studied law at the University

of Texas.

  He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Casebier of Fort Stockton and is married to the

former Miss Glory Britton of Quitman, an East Texas whom the judge met at Fort Stockton.

They have two boys, John Andrew, 9 and Frank 5.

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