Alumni Association Executive Committee 2009–2010
S. Jack Balagia
President-Elect
Jack Balagia is Assistant General Counsel for Exxon Mobil Corporation in Houston, Texas and supervises the ExxonMobil Law Department's litigation section.
Before joining Exxon, he was a partner with McGinnis, Lochridge and Kilgore in the firm's Austin and Houston offices, where his practice included energy litigation, oil and gas regulatory works and media law. During his time in private practice, he handled hundreds of contested administrative hearings before State agencies and tried over twenty lawsuits and arbitrations to verdict or through appeal.
He has served in a number of capacities with committees of the State Bar of Texas, including Chairman of the Bar's Public Affairs Committee. In 2000, the Texas Supreme Court appointed him to the Court's Board of Disciplinary Appeals, which has original and appellate jurisdiction over Texas lawyer disciplinary matters, and he served as Chairman of the Board from 2003-05. Mr. Balagia currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Houston Bar Foundation, which oversees financial support for Houston Bar Association pro bono and volunteer lawyer activities, and is also a Life Fellow in the Texas Bar Foundation. He is a former Board member of the Austin Young Lawyers Association. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and for the last four years has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly magazine.
He has served on the Seton Hospital Medical Ethics Council in Austin, and previously served as the ExxonMobil Law Department Coordinator for the Gulf Coast United Way Campaign. He is the Vice-President of the University of Texas Law School Alumni Association Executive Committee and is a member of the University's Chancellor's Council and Littlefield Society. He is a past-President of the Travis County UT Ex-Students Association.
Mr. Balagia graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1973 and J.D. 1976) and after law school, served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge W.M. Taylor, Jr. in Dallas, Texas.