Alumni Association Executive Committee 2008–2009
S. Jack Balagia
President-Elect
Jack Balagia is Assistant General Counsel, Litigation, for
Exxon Mobil Corporation, in Houston, Texas. Before joining
Exxon, he was a partner with McGinnis, Lochridge and Kilgore
in the firm's Austin and Houston offices, where his practice
principally included energy and media law litigation. Mr. Balagia
graduated from the University of Texas (B.A. 1973 and J.D. 1976)
and served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge W.M. Taylor,
Jr. in Dallas, Texas.
He has served in a number of capacities with committees of the State
Bar of Texas, including Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee,
and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Austin Young Lawyers
Association. He has been a frequent speaker at various oil and gas
litigation and media law seminars, was appointed to the Legal Committee
of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, and served as a member of
the Board of Directors of the Freedom of Information Foundation.
He was appointed by the Texas Supreme Court in 2000 to the Court's
Board of Disciplinary Appeals, which has original and appellate jurisdiction
over Texas lawyer discipline matters, and served as Chairman of the
Board from 2003-05.
He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (1994,
1998) and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by Texas
Monthly magazine (2005-2007 editions). Mr. Balagia serves on
the Board of the Houston Bar Foundation, and is also a Life Fellow
of the Texas Bar Foundation. He has served on the Seton Medical Center
Medical Ethics Council in Austin, and was the ExxonMobil Law Department
Coordinator for the Gulf Coast United Way Campaign in 2000. He is
a past-President of the Travis County University of Texas Ex-Students
Association, he currently serves on the Executive Committee of the
UT Law School Alumni Association and is a member of the University's
Chancellor's Council Executive Committee and Littlefield Society.