Background
Yeary has a Bachelors of Arts in English communication from St. Mary's University, Texas, St. Mary's University. He also has his Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University. Following law school, Yeary was a briefing attorney for Judge Bill White (Texas judge), Bill White, a former judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. From 1992 to 1995, Yeary worked as an associate attorney for Hedges & Walsh. However, he left private practice to become an assistant district attorney, where he worked in Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, Harris County, Texas, Harris County, and Bexar County.Judgeship
In 2014, Yeary was elected to Place 4 on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as a Republican in a partisan election. According to an analysis done by Ballotpedia to determine judge partisan behavior, Yeary was labeled a "mild Republican". Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has criticized every member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals except Yeary because he was the lone dissenter in a case that prohibited the state attorney general from having unilateral power to prosecute voter fraud.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yeary, Kevin Living people 21st-century American lawyers St. Mary's University School of Law alumni Texas Republicans Judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals 21st-century American judges 1966 births