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Eric Yollick
I'm a 30-year civil litigation attorney (licensed in Texas in 1989). I've lived in Montgomery County since 1992. I've handled around 200 civil jury trials in my career and probably well over 1,000 bench trials. I'm licensed in Colorado and the District of Columbia as well as many federal courts across Texas and the United States. I've worked for Republican candidates and to support the Republican Party since 1976.
I was born and grew up in Dallas. I graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1979.
I received my undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1983. My degree was in economic geology, which is the term to describe hard-rock mining geology. I received the Edward Sampson Prize in Economic Geology for my senior thesis in which I studied the mineralogy and geochemistry of garnets and in which I studied the petrology of the Sulphur Hill Mine in northern New Jersey. I attended graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin in high temperature geochemistry where I studied thermodynamics applications to dynamic igneous fluids. (Yes, I still love that stuff.)
I attended SMU School of Law and graduated in 1989. I had already passed the Bar Examination and had my law license in my pocket the day I graduated from Law School. In 2006, I decided to go back to graduate school. I received a Certificate from the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University in Advanced International Relations in 2009. In 2017, I received a Masters in Military History from Sam Houston State University.
I've been politically active for a long time. At Princeton, I was President of the College Conservatives Club, actively involved in Ronald Reagan's successful 1980 campaign for President, Editor of a conservative news magazine called "The Princeton Review," and active in the student government. I loved fighting with the school newspaper, "The Daily Princetonian." One of the liberal reporters there with whom I constanly feuded was a student one year ahead of me at Princeton by the name of Elena Kagan, who is now a United States Supreme Court Justice. I was also active in the Princeton College Republicans.
I was President of the Montgomery County Pachyderm Club in the mid-1990s. I founded and served as the first President of the Republican Leadership Council from 1997 to 1999, which was a precursor to the Tea Party movement.
I've been a Republican Precinct Chairman, an Election Judge, a State Convention Delegate, author of an anti-government-spending plank ("5, 5, and 8 by 2008") which appeared in the Republican Party of Texas Platform in the late 1990s, a major contributor to conservative candidates, and an activist and volunteer.
I was elected countywide to the Montgomery County Hospital District Board of Directors in 2004. The Board had appointed me to fill an unexpired term in 2003. While on the Board, I, along with a slim conservative majority, drastically reduced spending, cut out the Community Relations Department, ended retail payments of oncology drugs and replaced them with Medicare rates of payment, ended the ridiculous mobile medical clinic program. and fended off an effort to provide free medical care to illegal aliens. We cut spending and passed the lowest tax rate in the history of MCHD in August, 2006. Having accomplished my goals on the Board, I resigned 15 minutes after the Board meeting ended where we passed the low tax rate.
In June, 2016, I made a decision that I would spend the rest of my life working towards smaller government and greater freedom from government interference for all. During that time period, I started an online newspaper, The Golden Hammer, and have been involved in numerous issue campaigns, candidate campaigns, and conservative organizations. During that time period, I believe my greatest accomplishment has been to provide information to other conservatives to empower them in accomplishing their political goals. As part of that process, I've worked very hard to root out Montgomery County government corruption, such as the Phonoscope fiber optic cable scandal (and its main perpetrator Marc Davenport) and such as a County Auditor (Phyllis Martin) who just wasn't doing her job.
I also worked very hard to elect Mark Keough as a "reform" County Judge and to elect Steve Toth to the Texas House of Representatives. I was actively involved in the strategy and funding of the Victory 2018 Steering Committee of the Montgomery County Republican Party where we led Montgomery County to a huge General Election margin for Republicans over democrats which was instrumental in the re-election of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. In 2018, the Victory Committee organized the most successful General Election campaign this County had seen in decades. I was proud to be one of the leaders of that Committee.
I have devoted my time, treasure, sweat, and tears to my quest for government reform. My candidacy for District Judge of the 457th District Court is a part of my efforts to reform government. I hope to be an exemplary District Judge and show the world how great a District Court can be.
MCTP Rating of: 83 HIGH SCORE Source 
Submitted by john wertz on 2020-05-23 01:12:11
Pros
- 30+ years of experience in civil litigation
- Board certified in commercial and consumer civil law.
- 200 civil and 1000 bench trials
- The first to put a spot light on the inefficiencies of the local courts, causing the civil court backlogs we're seeing now
- extremely active in local political arena
- unquestionably conservative values in fiscal & governance matters
- has facilitated positive change
- tireless, energetic crusader
- exceptionally good investigative skills
Cons
- In light of the most recent controversy surrounding the May 13, 2020 Conroe Courier article, our position remains the same because of Mr. Yollicks overwhelming civil litigation experience and his conservative, constitutional activism, which still makes him the most qualified candidate in the race.
- The MCTP PAC has been made aware of videos (1) and (2) that have surfaced of Mr. Yollick allegedly taking... More
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Submitted by john wertz on 2020-02-09 15:26:00
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