Walker’s Legal Career
Brian K. Walker is a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Judicial District of Texas. Prior to serving in that capacity, Walker was a successful Military and Veteran’s Law, Criminal Law, and Civil Law Attorney for close to two decades.
During his legal career, Brian authored over 100 civil and criminal appeals. He also handled over 75 civil and criminal jury trials. During law school, Walker clerked for the late famed criminal defense attorney Richard “Racehorse” Haynes. After passing the bar exam in 2004, Walker went to work as a prosecutor at a small rural county in Northeast Texas.
Over the course of his legal career, Walker handled complex litigation cases throughout Texas. He served as a Prosecutor and Judge Advocate in the United States Air Force Reserves, and he helped win veterans hundreds of thousands of dollars in various legal claims throughout the U.S. He was frequently asked to teach legal seminars to lawyers around the world.
Awards and Accolades
In 2012, the Tarrant County Chapter of Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans presented Walker with the Committee Leadership Award for his work in helping co-found and lead the TLTV program. In 2013, Brian was selected by the Fort Worth Business Journal to their annual “40 Under 40” list of persons in the community under the age of forty who are the most successful in their respective professions and who are making a significant impact in the city through community service. In the early part of 2014, Walker was named a “Fellow” with the Next Generation Project of the Robert Strauss Institute for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2014, Brian was selected to the National Trial Lawyers – Top 100 Lawyers list which is “extended solely to the select few of the most qualified attorneys from each state who demonstrate superior qualifications of leadership, reputation, influence, stature and public profile.”
Walker was named as a “Lawyer on the Rise” by Texas Lawyer magazine in 2016. This honor is given to only 20 attorneys in Texas under the age of 40. Brian was one of only two attorneys in private practice to receive the award. In 2016 and 2017, Walker was selected as a “Rising Star” by “Super Lawyers”, the highly selective organization that chooses and ranks the top 2.5 percent of lawyers in the country based on peer review and successful performance in the legal industry. More recently, Brian was named a “Super Lawyer” (Top lawyers over 40 in the nation) in 2020 and 2021 by that same publication. Walker was named a “Top Attorney” by Fort Worth, Texas Magazine almost every year for an entire decade.
Walker was also honored by his high school alma mater as “The 2014/2015 Distinguished Alumnus.” Brian was the youngest recipient of that award in the several decades that it has been given.
