Appointed By: Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
The Hon. Julie K. Hampton is a magistrate on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. She was appointed to the bench by the judges of the Southern District of Texas on January 6, 2020.
Prior to her appointment, Hampton was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Texas, a position to which she was named in 2007. In that capacity, she sat as the attorney-in-charge of the offices in Corpus Christi and Victoria.
Hampton earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Kentucky in 1998. She then completed a J.D. at Baylor Law School in 2001. She is licensed to practice in Texas (2001).
After graduating from law school, Hampton began her legal career as an assistant district attorney with the Nueces County District Attorney’s Office. She served in that capacity until 2005, at which time she became an assistant attorney general for the Texas Attorney General’s Office in Corpus Christi. During her tenure there, she also held assignments as a special assistant United States attorney for the United States Department of Justice.
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