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Thursday, October 30, 1997
Federal judge loses law license
AUSTIN (AP) -- A Dallas federal judge, Jerry Buchmeyer, has
lost his Texas law license after his son defaulted on an $11,745
student loan.
The punishment by the state bar has no effect on Buchmeyer's
$133,600-a-year job because federal judges aren't required to
be licensed attorneys.
"Other than being embarrassing, it doesn't have any effect,"
Buchmeyer told the Austin American-Statesman for a story published
Wednesday.
Buchmeyer said he plans to pay off the loan soon. His suspended
license, first granted in 1957, then could be reinstated.
The judge said his son, Jon Buchmeyer, a University of Texas
graduate now living in New York, never notified him that the loan
was in default.
"I was stunned to find out several months ago that a default
judgment had been entered, which I'm sure he received and never
told me about," the judge said.
The Austin newspaper said records at the Texas Guaranteed Student
Loan Corp. indicate Jerry Buchmeyer had not been cooperative with
efforts to collect the overdue loan. Notes from an Oct. 16, 1993,
conversation said Buchmeyer hung up on an agency representative
after declining to verify his address.
Buchmeyer said he didn't remember that.
He was notified Sept. 18 that his law license had been suspended,
according to Kathy Holder of the State Bar's membership office.
In Texas, law licenses can be suspended for failing to repay
student loans or to pay child support, State Bar dues, the occupational
tax, or to complete continuing education requirements.
The State Bar also suspends or revokes law licenses of attorneys
who violate rules of conduct.
Buchmeyer has been on the federal bench since 1979.
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