F. Scott McCown, Member
Current Term: 2006-2009
McCown retired as a state district judge in 2002 to become Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities. As a judge, he presided over all of Texas' public school finance cases from 1990-2002 and thousands of child abuse cases. He is a member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and an elected member of the American Law Institute and the Philosophical Society of Texas. McCown earned a bachelor's degree in psychology, cum laude, from Texas Christian University in 1976, and graduated with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1979.