Judge Don Willett has graced Above the Law’s pages for years as a prolific Twitter user under the handle @JusticeWillett. Unfortunately, once he departed the Texas Supreme Court for the snootier environs of the Fifth Circuit, he’s curbed his tweeting and legal Twitter is all the poorer for it.
But there is some good news for the judge: the Forney, Texas school district where Willett graduated high school in 1984 is building a new elementary school and naming it after the jurist.
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That’s an intense elementary school! My elementary school was a single row of classrooms connected by an outdoor covered walkway. This thing looks like a palace. Especially this random hallway where I’m pretty sure junior Will Hunting here just cracked Cayley’s Formula.
Congratulations to Judge Willett on this honor. Maybe if we’re all lucky he can retweet this story.
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