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ASSOCIATION AWARDS (44TH LAW GALA)
HONORARY
ALUMNUS
AWARD
Judge Gregg Costa
Gregg Costa is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He grew up in
Richardson, Texas, and graduated from Dartmouth College. After college, he taught elementary
school in the Mississippi Delta town of Sunflower through the Teach for America program. He
then attended the University of Texas School of Law where he was editor-in-chief of the Texas
Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph on the United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the Supreme Court.
He also served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of Solicitor General. After his time in Washington,
he returned home to Texas where he was in private practice and taught federal courts as an adjunct
professor at the University of Houston Law Center before serving as an Assistant United States
Attorney. As an AUSA, he focused on prosecuting white collar crime, which included prosecuting
Allen Stanford for orchestrating a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. President Obama appointed
Judge Costa to the district court in 2012 and the court of appeals in 2014.
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