Austin (May 3, 2006) — (Austin) - State Bar of Texas officials today announced that Gib Walton of Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston has been named president-elect in a statewide election of Texas attorneys. Bill Miller of Texarkana has been elected president-elect of the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA).

Walton, a partner with Vinson & Elkins LLP since 1982, served as president of the Houston Bar Association, and chair of the Houston Bar Foundation and Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program. He has served on the State Bar Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and chaired the Finance Committee. Walton led the Bar through a successful Sunset Review as chair of the Sunset Review Committee during the 2003 legislative session. A member of the Pro Bono College and College of the State Bar, the Bar has recognized him with the State Bar Presidents' Award, Judge Sam Williams Leadership Award, and Michael J. Crowley Award.

Walton's community service includes serving on the board of directors of the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation, Methodist Hospital, Brookwood Community and the South Texas College of Law. He earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia, and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Walton is board certified in Civil Trial Law, and is an elected member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Garland Walker American Inn of Court, and the International Society of Barristers.

He will serve a one-year term as president-elect before assuming the presidency in June 2007. Walton and his wife, Martha, have two children, Cole, 23, and Emily, 19.

Bill Miller, a partner in the Texarkana firm of Greer, McCasland & Miller LLP, has been elected president-elect of the Texas Young Lawyers Association. Miller currently serves as chair of the TYLA Board of Directors. He has been an advisor to and worked on 14 TYLA committees, received the TYLA President's Award of Merit in 2002, and was named Outstanding Director in 2003. He is a founding member of the Texarkana Young Lawyers Association, and has served as its president and vice president.

Miller received a B.A. from Vanderbuilt University and a J.D. from Texas Tech University School of Law. He and his wife, Jessica, have three sons, Davis, Austin, and Mason.

The State Bar of Texas is an administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Texas. The Bar provides educational programs for the legal profession and the public, administers the minimum continuing legal education program for attorneys, and manages the attorney discipline system.