Burt Rowe Solomons | |
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Texas State Representative from District 65 (southeastern Denton County | |
In office January 10, 1995 – January 8, 2013 |
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Preceded by | Ben Campbell |
Succeeded by | Ron Simmons |
Personal details | |
Born |
Dallas, Texas, USA |
October 31, 1950
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Jamie Lynn Young Solomons |
Children | Daughter, Haley Solomons |
Residence | North Carrollton, Denton County |
Alma mater |
Thomas Jefferson High School |
Occupation | Attorney |
Thomas Jefferson High School
Texas Tech University
Southern Methodist University
Burt Rowe Solomons (born October 31, 1950) is an attorney from North Carrollton, Texas, who was from 1995 to 2013 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 65 in suburban southeastern Denton County.
Solomons was born and reared in Dallas, Texas, where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1972 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He subsequently received a Master of Public Administration degree from Southern Methodist University in University Park outside Dallas, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In 1978, Solomons was named assistant city attorney and was thereafter, briefly, the acting city attorney of Denton. He was the presiding municipal judge in Carrollton from 1987 to 1993 and an alternate municipal judge in Lewisville and Flower Mound. From 1993 to 1994, he was the president of the Texas Municipal Courts Association. He has served as a legal counsel for the Greater Lewisville Association of Realtors. Besides his own practice in Carrollton, in which he specializes in real estate and construction, Solomons holds affiliation with the Dallas law firm of Bell, Nunnally & Martin, LLP.