Justice Terry McCall was elected to the 11th Court of Appeals in 1998. He and his wife, Quay, live on their ranch in Comanche County. Justice McCall is currently serving his second term on the Court.
After serving two years as an active U.S. Army Reserve officer, Justice McCall began his career with Baker & Botts in Houston where he specialized in corporate finance. He left the law firm to become executive vice president of a computer timesharing company. Later, he was general counsel, vice-president of finance, and then senior vice-president of Alaska Interstate Company, a New York Stock Exchange company that owned manufacturing companies, C & K Petroleum Company, McAlester Fuel Company of Oklahoma, and Anchorage Natural Gas Company.
In 1980, Justice McCall formed McCall Industries by purchasing the manufacturing companies of Alaska Interstate Company. After selling those companies in 1992, he had planned to limit his activities to ranching. However, he also became county attorney for Comanche County. Subsequently, Justice McCall also established an appellate practice before the Eastland, Austin, and Fort Worth courts of appeal.
Justice McCall attended the University of Texas where he was President of Phi Eta Sigma and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His degree was B.A., Plan II. He attended the University of Texas Law School where he was a member of the Texas Law Review, Order of the Coif, Chancellors, and Phi Delta Phi.
Justice McCall has served or is serving as President of the Texas Forts Trail Association; member of the Board of Directors, Boy Scouts Chisholm Trail and Texas Trail; member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association; member of Higginbotham Bros., Inc., Board of Directors; President, 220th Judicial District Bar Association; Texas Bar Foundation Fellow; President of the Appellate Section of the Judicial Section of the State Bar of Texas.
Updated: 14-Sep-2006
