Jury Service Resources

Jury service is a privilege that offers the average citizen an unequaled opportunity to influence and deliberate over fundamental matters of justice. By performing this important civic duty, jurors help ensure fairness and excellence in the administration of justice by federal and state courts.

For videos and a written guide on what to expect when serving on a jury, please visit the Texas Young Lawyers Association’s How Texas Courts Work website and select “Jurors” from the menu.

Also, the State Bar of Texas Law-Related Education project Jury Service: A Call to Duty features animated educational videos explaining the history of jury service, how juries are selected, and what happens when you serve on a jury.

Television public service announcements (PSAs) on the importance of jury service – produced as a public service by the State Bar of Texas Jury Service Committee — are available below.

Texas Bar Blog

• Jury duty scams targeting Travis County

• Jury duty scam spreading across Texas

• Jury duty: A front-row seat to justice by Judge Katherine Cabaniss

Texas Bar Journal

• Call of Duty: Texas Celebrates Its Inaugural Jury Appreciation Week (Originally published in May 2016.)

• Client Page: So You Received a Jury Summons—Now What? (Originally published in 2012.)

• Client Page: Serving on a Jury (Originally published in 2005; Note that the child age exemption was 10 at the time of publication; it has since been changed to 12.)

Download These Resources

• Texas Uniform Jury Handbook
  As Authorized by Chapter 23 of the Government Code (English | Spanish) (available online only)

• American Juror

• Jury Service Toolkit: A public education resource for lawyers (available online only)

• Juror Information Guide: A public education resource (available online only)

• Guia Para Participantes Del Jurado En Texas (disponible solo en linea)

Juror Recognition

• Sample Thank You Letter from Judge to Jurors, a resource of the State Bar of Texas Jury Service Committee

• Jury Appreciation Week Guide, a resource of the State Bar of Texas Jury Service Committee

• Promoting Jury Appreciation Week, an article by Judge Eddie Northcutt for In Chambers magazine (Summer 2017)

Members

Chair: Steven Denny
Vice Chair: John Charles Ginn
Board Advisor: Forrest L. Huddleston
Alternate Board Advisor: David Courreges
Advisory Members: Doryn Danner Glenn, Joseph M. Cox
Staff Liaison: Lowell Brown

Term Ends 2023
Artrie Allen
Amy Cecile Pewitt Bryan
Michael N. Shoemaker
James G. Stouffer, Jr.
Judge Andrea Rene Stroh
David K. Williams

Term Ends 2024
Elizabeth “Mimi” Coffey
Sheryl Gay Draker
Leland M. Irwin
Andrea Meza
Elizabeth Ann Rahwan
Jonathan Daniel Selden
Jason Willis Snell

Term Ends 2025
Steven Denny
John Charles Ginn

Request Copies

You may request up to 20 copies of a pamphlet. If they are available, we will mail them to you.

Include the name of the pamphlet, the number of copies requested, your full name, phone number, and mailing address, and send your request by fax, email, or telephone:

Public Affairs Dept.
Email: pamphlets@texasbar.com
Fax: (512) 427-4245
Tel: (512) 427-1800

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