November Meeting – Honoring Texas War Heroes
You won’t want to miss Village Republican Women’s Veteran’s Celebration honoring Texas war heroes. Justice Ken Wise is an avid Texas historian and will focus his remarks about Texans who fought to make our great state and country free. Our November meeting is Wednesday, November 20. Check-in is at 11:00 a.m., and Program/Lunch is at 11:30 a.m.
Host of the award-winning Texas history podcast, “Wise About Texas,” which has over four hundred thirty thousand listeners in 122 countries worldwide, Justice Wise has written several journal articles and given dozens of speeches on all aspects of Texas history. He serves on the State Historian Committee, the Archives Committee and the McNeil Fellowship Committees of the Texas State Historical Association. He is a Trustee of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society and a member of the Supreme Court Task Force on Historic Court Record Preservation and is also a member of the Delegados Associate Board of the Bryan Museum in Galveston, Texas.
Justice Wise was appointed to the 14th Court of Appeals by Governor Rick Perry in October 2013. Prior to his appointment, Justice Wise served as the Judge of the 334th Judicial District Court in Harris County and Judge of the 152nd Judicial District Court in Harris County.
Justice Wise is very active in the service of the bar and the judiciary. He co-chaired a State Bar task force that conducted the first complete study of the Texas Court system since 1894. He has also served as a multi-district litigation judge as well as a visiting judge in counties across the State of Texas.
A native Houstonian, Justice Wise is very active in the Houston community. He is a director of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and an advisory director of the Former Texas Ranger Foundation. In 2015, the Governor of Kentucky commissioned Justice Wise as a Kentucky Colonel. Justice Wise earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University, where he competed as a member of the intercollegiate rodeo team.
Ken is a fifth-generation native Texan with roots dating back to Houston in 1836. He is married to Sara Wise and they have two children, Sarah Jane and Jackson.
~ Deanna Harrington, Programs