Janice Law

JANICE LAW was born in Flint, Michigan. When Law graduated in 1963 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a BA in English and journalism, she was the second person ever-in all generations on both sides of her family-to receive an undergraduate college degree.For 14 years, she worked as a reporter for various newspapers across the United States. In 1976 she entered Nova Law School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, working the night police desk as a reporter at the Fort Lauderdale News to support herself during her first year of law school. When she received her J.D. in 1979, she was the first person in her family to earn a professional college degree.Law worked as a state prosecutor in Florida until 1985 when she moved to Houston, serving as staff attorney for the federal judges in the Southern District of Texas from 1985-88. From 1988, she worked in the litigation section of the City of Houston legal department. In 1990 she moved to McAllen, Texas, on the Texas-Mexico border, to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney. From 1991-94 she worked in Houston as a criminal defense attorney for the indigent, until appointed by the mayor as an Associate Municipal Judge for the City of Houston, In 1998, she was elected as judge in Harris County, Texas, County Criminal Court No. 5. She now serves as a visiting judge for Texas judges who are vacationing, ill, or absent. Judge Law may be contacted at www.judgejanicelaw.com