A recognized leader, Judge Karin Crump has been honored by the State Bar of Texas for fostering collaboration within the legal community and is dedicated to diversifying the legal profession as a mentor and the judicial liaison for the Youth Justice Alliance.

 

Her call to service has been broad: President of the Texas Young Lawyers Association, Board of Directors for the Texas Bar Foundation, Board of Editors for the Texas Bar Foundation, Chair of a Texas Supreme Court Task Force to expand the delivery of legal services, and co-founder of the Austin Bar/AYLA Leadership Academy, which now has hundreds of graduates. Judge Crump is the Immediate Past President of the Texas Association of District Judges and serves the State Bar of Texas on the Judicial Section Board of Directors, the Board of Editors for the Litigation Section's quarterly publication, The Advocate, and on the State Bar of Texas Jury Committee.

 

Judge Crump was the first generation in her family to graduate college. She waited tables, answered phones at law firms and served as a Capitol staffer to pay her way through the University of Texas and then St. Mary’s School of Law. Her legal career has spanned the gamut: complex civil litigation, family law, criminal law, and dispute resolution, all while being recognized for her commitment to pro bono services. In 2014, she was elected to the district court bench, where she has since presided over the 250th District Court in Travis County.

 

Through her commitment to access to justice, mentorship, and defense of the law’s responsibility to protect the rights of all, Judge Karin Crump has strived to live out the words of one her heroes, Barbara Jordan, who said, “It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned and once earned, we have an obligation to do something with it.”

 

Karin and her husband have been married for more than twenty years. They are the proud parents of one daughter, a UT graduate, and twin boys who attend high school.