| Kevin Yeary | |
| Office: | Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
| Term Start: | January 1, 2015 |
| Birth Date: | 8 September 1966 |
| Party: | Republican |
| Education: | St. Mary's University, Texas (BA, JD) |
Kevin Patrick Yeary is an American attorney and jurist who serves on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A Republican, he was elected in 2014.[1]
Yeary has a Bachelors of Arts in English communication from St. Mary's University. He also has his Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University.[2] [3]
Following law school, Yeary was a briefing attorney for Judge Bill White, a former judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. From 1992 to 1995, Yeary worked as an associate attorney for Hedges & Walsh. However, he left private practice to become an assistant district attorney, where he worked in Dallas County, Harris County, and Bexar County.[2]
In 2014, Yeary was elected to Place 4 on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as a Republican in a partisan election.[2] According to an analysis done by Ballotpedia to determine judge partisan behavior, Yeary was labeled a "mild Republican".[2] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has criticized every member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals except Yeary because he was the lone dissenter in a case that prohibited the state attorney general from having unilateral power to prosecute voter fraud.[4]