Judd E. Stone

Judd E. Stone is a partner at Stone Hilton in Austin, Texas, and was the State of Texas solicitor general from February 2021 to October 2023. He is also a former research fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

Before joining the Texas Solicitor General’s Office in 2020, Stone was chief counsel for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, and previously practiced at Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius in their Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group in Washington. D.C., and at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick. He also served as an Olin-Searle-Smith fellow at Harvard Law School.

Stone began his legal career as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, to then-Chief Judge Edith Jones on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and for Justice Daniel Winfree on the Alaska Supreme Court. He received his law degree from Northwestern University, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Dallas.