Greg Coleman

Who was Greg Coleman?

Gregory Scott Coleman was a Texas lawyer and the first Solicitor General of Texas, serving in that capacity from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that, he served as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit chief judge Edith Jones from 1992-1993; and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, arguing nine cases before the nation's high court in the 1990s. At the time of his appointment as solicitor general, he was working as an adjunct professor at Houston's South Texas College of Law and taught Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law where he taught United States Supreme Court Advocacy.

He was a lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in its Houston office from 1993-1995, left to clerk for the Honorable Clarence Thomas from 1995-1996, rejoined the Weil Houston office from 1996-1998, was appointed as the first Solicitor General of Texas from 1999-2001, and rejoined Weil to head its Austin office from 2001-2007.

In 2007, he established his own law firm, Yetter Coleman.