Second Court of Appeals

Justice Place 6

Mark T. Pittman (2017 to 2019)

Mark T. Pittman was born in Big Spring, Texas, on June 28, 1975.  After completing high school in Cooper, Texas, he attended Texas A&M University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science.  He then matriculated at the University of Texas School of Law, where he helped to found the Texas Review of Law and Politics.  While in law school, he worked for Governor George W. Bush and clerked in the General Counsel’s Office.

Following his graduation from law school in 1999, he began working for Kelly, Hart & Hallman in Fort Worth. After gaining a year of practice experience, he accepted a judicial clerkship in the chambers of United States District Judge Eldon B. Mahon.  Following his clerkship, he returned to Kelly, Hart & Hallman before moving to the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., in October 2004.  In 2007, Pittman moved back to Texas, accepting a position in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.  In 2009, he began working for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, where he primarily prosecuted banks.  In 2011, he accepted a position with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In January 2015, Governor Rick Perry appointed Pittman as judge of the 352nd District Court in Tarrant County.  He was then appointed to the Second Court of Appeals by Governor Greg Abbott in January 2017.  Pittman served as a justice on this court until he was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to the federal bench.  In August 2019, he was sworn in as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division.

In addition to fulfilling his judicial duties, Judge Pittman is active in the Texas Aggie Bar Association, Federalist Society, and the Tarrant County Volunteer Attorney Services Committee.  He is a member of the Texas Bar Foundation, Tarrant County Bar Association, Tarrant County Bar Foundation, American Judges Association, Eldon B. Mahon Inn of Court, Fort Worth Civil War Roundtable, and the Ballet Concerto of Fort Worth.  He works with scholarship programs and teaches as an adjunct professor at the Texas A&M University School of Law.  He also teaches as an adjunct professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law.