Texas Life Fellow Gibson Gayle
June 1, 2009, Fellows in the news, Texas Bar Journal
In February, during the American Bar Association's midyear meeting in Boston, the House of Delegates honored Houston lawyer Gibson Gayle, Jr. for 50 years of distinguished service. Secretary of the ABA from 1963 to 1967, Mr. Gayle has served as president and director of the American Bar Endowment, a member of the ABA Journal Board of Editors, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation. In 2006, he was honored with The Fellows Outstanding Service Award.
Mr. Gayle served as president of the State Junior Bar of Texas in 1954-55, and four years later was elected chair of the Junior Bar Conference of the ABA. He was honored as the State Junior Bar's Outstanding Young Lawyer in 1964. He served on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors from 1966-69, as vice president in 1974, and as president of the State Bar of Texas in 1976-77. He is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and served as its chair from 1968-69.
Mr. Gayle graduated with honors from Baylor Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1950 after receiving the highest score on the bar exam. He became a partner in Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston in 1961, served as the firm's managing partner and chair of the executive committee from 1979-92, and continues to serve of counsel to the firm. Gayle has also served as an adjunct professor at both the University of Houston Law Center and the University of Texas School of Law.
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