Judge Brantley Starr was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in August 2019. Before his appointment, he served as Deputy First Assistant Attorney General of Texas and, before that, as Deputy Attorney General for Legal Counsel.

From 2011 to 2015, Judge Starr was a career staff attorney to Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman. He practiced at King & Spalding LLP from 2008 to 2011 and served in the Texas Office of the Solicitor General from 2006 to 2008. Earlier in his career, he clerked for then-Justice Don Willett on the Texas Supreme Court.

Judge Starr received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Abilene Christian University. He has taught the Origins of the Constitution at the University of Texas, Texas A&M, and SMU law schools.