Join us to meet Anthony Graves who will present his compelling story of 18 years on death row in Texas before being exonerated. 

Anthony Charles Graves  (born August 29, 1965) is a nationally recognized criminal justice reform advocate, author, and the 138th person exonerated from death row in the United States. Wrongfully convicted at age 26 for a crime he did not commit, Anthony spent 18 and a half years behind bars—12 of those years in solitary confinement on Texas death row—before his conviction was overturned and he was fully exonerated in 2010. His story, marked by resilience and the pursuit of justice, has become a touchstone for reform efforts nationwide.

Following his exoneration, Anthony transformed his trauma into purpose. He is the president and founder of the Peer Navigator Project—an innovative initiative that trains formerly incarcerated individuals to serve as expert partners to criminal defense attorneys and as mentors for returning citizens. Through this program, Peer Navigators are equipped to work alongside legal teams and to support individuals reentering society, providing mentorship and guidance during the crucial first 18 months of freedom. The Peer Navigator Project stands as a model for holistic, lived-experience-driven advocacy and reentry support, with a proven track record of reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for justice-involved individuals.

Anthony’s impact extends beyond direct service. His Emmy Award-winning documentary,  Grave Injustice, chronicles his journey and exposes the systemic failures that lead to wrongful convictions, sparking national dialogue and legislative scrutiny. As a sought-after public speaker and consultant, Anthony has testified before the U.S. Senate, contributed to policy reforms, and educated legal professionals on the realities of wrongful conviction and the urgent need for systemic change.

Currently, Anthony serves as Director of Community Outreach at the Harris County Public Defender’s Office, where he leads efforts to build bridges between the legal system and the communities it serves. In this capacity, he continues to champion the integration of lived experience into defense strategy and reentry programming, ensuring that justice is not only served but also restored.

Born and raised in Brenham, Texas, Anthony is the eldest of five siblings and a proud father of three. His life’s work embodies resilience, hope, and the unwavering belief that justice must be accessible and fair for all. Through his leadership, advocacy, and storytelling, Anthony Graves remains a powerful force for change in the American criminal justice system.

A glimpse of LBJ will include a presentation by LBJ Population Health about Food is Medicine followed by a tour of Food Farmacy and an opportunity to prepare a few food bags for patients from 11:30 am -1:00 pm.  The day will end with a tour of LBJ hospital from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm.

Food Farmacy 

Join us on Thursday, September 4, 2025 to hear Dick speak about Defending the Undefendable. His work is legendary. 
 

Dick DeGuerin

Dick is a lawyer who got his start as an Assistant District Attorney in Houston in 1965, putting people in jail, but since 1968 has practiced criminal defense in Houston and around the country, getting people out of jail. In other words, he has fully recovered from being a prosecutor.
 

After working with famed defense lawyer Percy Foreman, Dick formed his own firm, DeGuerin and Dickson in 1982.  He has defended a wide variety of high profile clients, from judges, politicians, and celebrities to just plain folks accused of everything from murder to prostitution. He represented David Koresh during the siege in Waco, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Congressman Tom DeLay, Billionaire Robert Durst, and other newsworthy folks, as well as many less noted cases. Most recently he was lead counsel for the inpeachment Trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Senate. He came in second. Dick maintains his primary office in Houston and is Of Counsel with Liz Rogers and Shane O'Neill in Alpine.  
 

In addition to his active practice, Mr DeGuerin has been an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin since 1994.  He is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, as well as other professional organizations.

Get Ready to Ignite Your Club! 🎇

Are you ready to transform your Rotary club into a dynamic, engaging, and United force For Good? Do you want to attract new members, boost participation, put Compaasion in Action and make a bigger difference in your community?

🗓️ Then mark your calendars for the District 5890 Vibrant Club Training!

⚡️This isn't your average training. We're bringing you an interactive, high-energy experience packed with innovative strategies, fresh ideas, and proven techniques to breathe new life into your club. You'll learn how to:

🌟 Attract and retain passionate members
🌟 Create engaging and impactful meetings
🌟 Amplify your club's projects
🌟 Foster a culture of energy and enthusiasm
🌟 And so much more!

🤝 Join fellow Rotary leaders and members for a day of inspiration, collaboration, and practical takeaways that will empower you to build a truly vibrant club.

✔️ Don't miss out on this opportunity to revitalize your Rotary experience!

Register on the linlk below

Vibrant Club Training | Rotary District 5890

Monthly Board meeting will be held at Harris County Youth Services Center at 6300 Chimney Rock (77081) due to Texans Football Game at NRG.  

Paul W. Hobby has had a lifetime of preparation in family and business dealing with polar opposite people, ideas, and aspirations. His book Glorious Tension: Rediscovering Our Sacred Middle Ground in an Age of Extremism certainly is timely for discussion and your questions.

More than ever before in society today, the middle ground sounds amazing.

Mr. Hobby is a Founding Partner of Genesis Park, L.P. who has been an active regional debt and equity provider for over twenty five years.

In that context, Mr. Hobby has served as Chairman or CEO of numerous portfolio companies: Genesis Park Acquisition Company, Alpheus Communications, Texas Monthly, Caprock Communications, and a solar finance venture, Flic Financial.

Mr. Hobby has more than six decades of combined public company experience having served on the boards of eight public companies through complex markets and management transitions.

Mr. Hobby is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he has been honored by the Raven Society, and the University of Texas School of Law, where he has served as an adjunct faculty member and been honored as an Outstanding Young Alumnus. In 2022, he was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. Mr. Hobby has been an invited lecturer at many colleges and universities.

Mr Hobby’s public and civic participations have been numerous, in particular he is former Chairman of the Greater Houston Partnership, the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Texas Ethics Commission, the Texas General Services Commission, the Philosophical Society of Texas, and The Texas Business Hall of Fame.

He is the author of a 2023 book, Glorious Tension.

Join Virtually ---> September 18, 2025

Please join the Rotary Club of Houston; Rotary Club of University Area; Rotary Club of West U for the District 5890 Rise Against Hunger Event

Please click on the link below to attend or decline. You can also book family and friends.

Rotarians and guests can park out front and enter through the CareerCenter entrance on the left side of the building. We will have our team there by 11 to greet early arrivals etc.

During the visit, you can expect a facility tour, an overview of current programs and the expansion outlook for training programs, and a briefing on Mission Services and Engagement Activities.

Please be aware that this is an active construction site, so please wear close toed shoes to the event. We will have masks available if anyone is sensitive to dust, or they may want to bring their own. We believe the facility is absolutely safe to tour, but we want to make sure everyone understands.

Duncan F. Klussmann served as the Superintendent of Schools in Spring Branch Independent School District (SBISD) from 2004- 2015. On July 1, 2015 he assumed the title of Superintendent Emeritus. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Klussmann served as an interim superintendent and area superintendent for SBISD. His vast experience includes periods as a school principal and assistant principal, as well as a classroom teacher.

During his 11 year tenure in SBISD, the school district passed the largest bond program in the history of the school district. The $597 million program replaced 13 aging elementary schools, renovated all remaining campuses, provided for new school buses, enhanced athletics facilities, and greatly expanded technology use in the school district. The original program called for the work to be accomplished over a 10 year period of time. As the result of a carefully designed management program, the bond work is scheduled to be completed well ahead of schedule with significant financial savings.

In 2012, Dr. Klussmann helped create the SKY Partnership, which joins together SBISD with KIPP Houston (KIPP) and YES Prep Public Schools (YES Prep) at two district middle schools where new campus program charters now operate. In August of 2015, the partnership expanded into high school. In the Houston region, such an innovative partnership between a school district and charter schools is one of a kind.

In addition, Dr. Klussmann worked closely with the board of trustees, community, staff and students on the creation of the Spring Branch Plan 2012-2017 Goal and Belief Statements. Utilizing a single-focused goal, SBISD doubled the number of students completing a technical certificate, military training and two or four-year degree. This ambitious goal is referred to as Spring Branch T-2-4.

Dr. Klussmann has twice served as president of the Texas School Alliance, an association of 39 of the largest and most influential school districts in Texas. He was recently named one of three 2014 Houstonians of the Year by the Houston Chronicle. A recipient of the Lifetime Member Award from the Texas Parent and Teacher Association, Dr. Klussmann received the TABE Honoree Award for Public Education in 2012. Dr. Klussmann now serves as a board member with United Way, and he remains active with numerous community groups.

Join us on Thursday, October 9, 2025 as John W. Diamond, Ph.D. as we look at the current economic state. With Bill King handling the host role, we anticipate the unexpected. 

John W. Diamond, Ph.D., is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Senior Fellow in Public Finance and the senior director of the Center for Tax and Budget Policy at the Baker Institute, an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University and CEO of Tax Policy Advisers, LLC. His research interests are federal tax and expenditure policy, state and local public finance, and the construction and simulation of computable general equilibrium models. His current research focuses on the economic effects of corporate tax reform, the economic and distributional effects of fundamental tax reform, taxation and housing values, public sector pensions, and various other tax and expenditure policy issues.

Diamond is co-editor of “Pathways to Fiscal Reform in the United States” (The MIT Press, 2015) and “Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications” (The MIT Press, 2008). He has testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. House Budget Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and other federal and state committees on issues related to tax policy and the U.S. economy. Diamond served as forum editor for the National Tax Journal (2009-2017) and on the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress (2000-2004). He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank on the efficacy of structural adjustment programs.

He received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 2000.

Join Virtually ---> October 9, 2025

Join us for fun and fellowship

Call or text Joel at 832-641-1859 for information

REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED

Thursday, October 16, 2025 – Rotary Club Cruise of Port Houston

departing from San Jacinto Battleground Dock by the Monument

Greetings,

Reservations are now closed for this special Rotary Club of Houston Cruise of Port Houston with Ric Campo.  If you need to make a change, get more information or get transportation assistance, please contact Martin Cominsky directly by text or phone call to 713-705-4829.

Port Chairman Ric Campo and Port Houston will welcome those pre-registered members and guests for the cruise and lunch aboard the M/V SAM HOUSTON, on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 10:30 AM, for a tour of the Houston Ship Channel.  

Business casual attire is recommended, with special attention to the following.  Please wear comfortable flat shoes and understand there will be a wind factor for dresses.  

We are grateful to Port Houston for hosting us for this special event.  

William T. Harris
President & CEO, Space Center Houston
Manned Space Flight Education Foundation

On October 23rd join us to hear directly about how Space Center Houston inspires Innovation and Service.

William T. Harris oversees the strategic direction of the space exploration learning destination, Space Center Houston. With approximately 450 employees and contractors, Space Center Houston is the No. 1 international attraction in the greater Houston area, generating a $118.7 million annual economic impact. The center is a nonprofit, Smithsonian Affiliate, the Official Visitor Center of NASA Johnson Space Center, and was named "Best Museum in Texas" by USA Today.

Joining the foundation and center in April 2016, Harris has more than 37 years in nonprofit leadership including senior positions at museums and universities, where he led numerous multimillion-dollar fundraising campaigns, principal and major gifts, marketing, communications, government relations and strategy development. In March 2023, Harris was appointed by President Biden to the National Museum and Library Sciences Board where he will advance, empower and shape policy for America's museums, libraries and related organizations.

He serves as the chair of the board of directors and executive committee of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC). He is also a member of the board of directors and chair of the grants committee for the QueensCare Charitable Foundation, is a member of the board of directors for the Greater Houston Partnership and serves as board vice president of the Association of Science Museum Directors (ASMD).

Space Center Houston's shared purpose is to bring people and space closer together. Over 1.1 million visitors and more than 250,000 students and educators visit each year to connect with the significance of space exploration to pursue a path in STEM or follow along as incredible feats of human spaceflight continue to make new discoveries. Space Center Houston is owned by the Manned Space Flight Education 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and generates an annual $118M economic impact to the Greater Houston area. Space Center Houston is a Smithsonian Affiliate, the Official Visitor Center of NASA Johnson Space Center and a Certified Autism Center. Learn more at spacecenter.org.

Celebrating Service Above Self in the Next Generation

Join the Rotary Club of Houston and District 5890 Governor Tom Kelchner as we highlight five impactful youth service programs that demonstrate the Rotary motto — Service Above Self — in action:

• Interact
• Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE)
• Camp Enterprise
• Rodeo Calf Scramble
• Burnett-Bayland Committee

This special program will include the installation of officers from the RCoH-sponsored Interact Club at Houston Academy of International Studies (HAIS). Incoming 2025–26 Interact President Flor Castro will share their club’s plans and activities for the coming year.

As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Rotary International Youth Exchange Program, meet our 2025–26 inbound student, Kritsawat “Bombay” Sangsook from Northern Thailand, who will give a presentation on his home country.

Since 1986, RCoH has inspired high school juniors through Camp Enterprise, an immersive weekend in business and leadership development. Learn about the 2026 Camp at Camp Allen, now accepting student applications and volunteer planners! Learn how you can volunteer at the Camp and make a lasting impression on a student. 

Hear firsthand from a past Rodeo Houston Calf Scramble participant about this life-changing scholarship opportunity proudly sponsored by the Rotary Club of Houston.

And discover the legacy of BBRC, Rotary’s oldest continuously operating committee (est. 1919), which partners with the Harris County At-Promise Youth  to provide career & life-prep programs — including robotics, entrepreneurship, meditation, and financial literacy.

Come learn how you can be part of shaping the future for Houston’s youth — and the world.

Story Practicum – Unearthing You

This Story Practicum invites attendees to "hold and show their stories" through practices and tools of presence, inner listening, and story shaping. Nothing holds a person in its palms like stories; nothing shapes them like stories’ fingertips.

The Youth learn to:

Hold their stories with compassion and awareness

Listen to their inner narratives with curiosity

Shape those narratives into forms that empower healing and growth

Led by Fulbright Specialist and Anthropologist Marlon F. Hall, this practicum is an embodied, story-centered experience designed to help students not only survive—but *thrive.* Through guided reflection, film, and embodied exercises, participants become both storytellers and story-listeners of their own lives. The aim is for students to unearth who they are, deconstruct what they do, and remember why they must succeed—using the ancient technology of story as both mirror and map.

15-30 youth are expected to attend

9:30-10:00 AM-  Setup

10:00- 11:30- Workshop

11:30-12:00- Lunch

A criminal background check is required.

Please contact: Mercedes Agodio BBRC Chair 2025-2026

Join us for fun and fellowship at our monthly RCoH After Hours social event.

This is the evening before Bombay turns the big 17.  You may even get a slice of cake.

The Veterans Committee of the Rotary Club of Houston invites you to participate in the “Veterans Day Celebration: Honoring All Who Served Our Country” at the Cloudbreak “Veterans” Community.  Our Rotary Club will provide food, beverages, games, and fellowship to our veterans who currently reside at Cloudbreak.  Come out and celebrate the military service that these men and women provided to our great country.   Space is limited—so please register on-line.

The Cloudbreak Community is one of several active developments that provides supportive housing for homeless and at-risk veterans in nine cities across five states.  Owned and operated by Cantwell-Anderson, Inc., the Cloudbreak Community in Houston—originally a Days Inn Hotel—has housed nearly 3,000 veterans in transitional and long-term housing since 2003.  The mission at Cloudbreak is to assist “each veteran to overcome life’s obstacles and attain his or her potential through mutuality, dignity and respect for all.” 

Join Team Rotary Club of Houston / Lombardi Award to give cancer the boot!

President Joel Levine (832-641-1859) will be leading the event on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. 

MD Anderson's Boot Walk to End Cancer is a 1.2-mile walk in the Texas Medical Center — or in your own neighborhood. This 10th annual fundraiser provides support for patient programs, research, prevention and education at MD Anderson, and 100% of funds raised by participants directly advance MD Anderson's mission to end cancer.

There is no registration fee and no minimum fundraising requirement.  When you register for Boot Walk, you will receive free online and mobile fundraising tools, as well as staff support to help you raise funds and awareness among your friends, families and communities.

On Saturday, November 15th, put on your favorite pair of boots - cowboy, rain, combat or other (sneakers) - and join thousands across the country for this year's Boot Walk.  All ages are welcome to participate.  There is fun for the entire family!

Together we can give cancer the boot!

Become part of Team Rotary Club of Houston / Lombardi Award

Donate to Team Rotary Club of Houston / Lombardi Award

Timeline:

• Registration Opens: 8:00 a.m.

• Opening Ceremony: 8:45 a.m.

• Walk Start: 9:00 a.m.

• Celebration:  9:20 a.m.

Free Event Day Parking:

Fannin South Transit Center / 1604 West Bellfort Avenue, Houston Texas 77054

Free METRORail ride to and from Registration

Truth or Consequences-To vaccinate or not

Paul Klotman, M.D., FACP
Baylor College of Medicine
President & CEO

Since September 1, 2010 I have had the privilege of serving as President and CEO of Baylor College of Medicine, one of the world’s leading health science universities.

My position as the leader of Baylor College of Medicine has highlighted to me the need for radical change in academic medicine. Through the application of scientific principles across all areas of the College, we are creating new models for how we manage and operate the College; deliver care focused on value and on the individual; and conduct research. As we develop these new models we are changing the way we educate the next generation so that they will be prepared, not only to work with new approaches, but to continue to evolve our models for changing times. We are redefining academic medicine.

In the laboratory my work has blended both basic and clinical research in molecular virology and AIDS pathogenesis. I have mentored over 50 clinical fellows, postdoctoral fellows, and students in my laboratory, most of whom are now independently funded, including four who currently serve as chairs of medicine and four others who lead major institutes or centers. Among other achievements, the work in my laboratory, led to development of the first small animal model of HIV-associated nephropathy using transgenic techniques.

Throughout my career, enhancing medical education has been a driving force. As Chairman of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine I led a redesign of the residency program that helped make it one of the top internal medicine programs in the country. At Baylor, I am working with the leadership of all four schools to strengthen and expand medical and scientific education from kindergarten through post-graduate training.

Ultimately the goal of all we are doing at Baylor is to improve the health and wellbeing of the people of Houston and the world. Achieving this requires engagement in the world outside academia to shape and encourage adoption of new policies. Toward this end, I work with our local and national governments as well as Baylor’s affiliated institutions and serve on many local and national boards and committees, including the Greater Houston Partnership, the American Association of Medical Colleges, and the boards of several companies.

If you have experienced grid lock trying to drive through River Oaks to see the elaborate winter wonderland decorations-we have you covered! Mister McKinney's Houston History Bus Lights Tour will drive you past the over 100 homes that voluntarily create spectabular light displays starting November 20th. 

We have all 20 seats on the first tour of the season and will create a wait list in case there is enough for another group of 20...RSVP quickly. All ages love this tour. I have personally taken many visitors for this ride and highly recommend it.

Supporting cancer research for over 50 years.

http://www.lombardiaward.org

BEAR ... BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS

The BEAR will provide lunch for participants.

Rotarians and friends will separate gifts by age to create gift bags according to CPS children's wish list.

BEARing Gifts provides holiday gifts to children involved with Child Protective Services who otherwise would have no holiday cheer at all. Over 14,000 children were served with our help last year!

Let's do it again this year! Bring your donation of new, unopened toys to the Warehouse on Thursday December 11th, 2025.

*Located at the end of the Brookwood Business Park next to Oaks Dads’ Club (baseball fields).

A View from the Texas Business Court

The Inaugural Year: Progress & Momentum

Judges: Sofia Adrogué and Grant Dorfman 

Hon. Sofia Adrogué

Governor Greg Abbott appointed Sofia Adrogué to be one of the inaugural judges of the Eleventh Business Court Division, effective September 1, 2024. The Eleventh Business Court Division is composed of the counties of Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda, Montgomery & Wharton. A native of Argentina, Sofia is a former Senior Trial Partner with Diamond McCarthy LLP, a 10-year+ Texas Super Lawyer, Best Lawyer, & Latino Leaders “U.S. 25 Most Influential Hispanic Lawyer” & “Most Powerful Woman in Law.” She envisioned & serves as the Editor of the TEXAS BUSINESS LITIGATION treatise (5th Edition) & has published and/or spoken on over 250 occasions. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program, an alumna of HBS (U.S. Keynote Graduation Speaker for HBS OPM 37, ostensibly the first woman, & U.S. Class Representative), & a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center, magna cum laude, & Rice University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, both on full academic scholarships.

Having handled matters arising in Texas, across the U.S. as well as in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, among other venues, she has obtained favorable judgments and settlements on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in U.S. state and federal courts and in alternative dispute resolution (ADR— mediation & arbitration) proceedings. Sofia has served on THE ADVOCATE Editorial Board, the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee, the CLE, Mentor & Professionalism Committees of the State Bar of Texas as well as the CLE, HOUSTON LAWYER & the Professionalism Committees of the Houston Bar Association, among others. She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation & the Houston Bar Foundation. She has also served as a Member of the Houston First Board of Directors as well as the City of Houston Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board.

She has received over 40 awards, including the `2025 Greater Houston Woman’s Chamber of Commerce Pioneering Leadership in Justice Award; the 2024 L.I.F.E. Mother’s Day Award; the 2023 UHLC Hispanic Law Heritage Wall of Honor recognition; the 2022 Top 30 Women in Houston Award; 2021 World Affairs Council of Greater Houston Global Leader of Influence; 2020 Comcast Hispanic Heroes Award; a Greater Houston Women's Chamber “Hall of Fame” Inductee; a HOUSTON CHRONICLE Channel 11 “Texas Legend” & 10 “Extraordinary Latinos” (Inaugural List) ; National Diversity Council “Most Powerful and Influential Woman of Texas” & one of the “Top 50 Women Lawyers”; a UH Law Center Immigration Clinic Arrival Award & a Houston Jaycees “Outstanding Houstonian”; a Texas Jaycees “Outstanding Texan”; and a U.S. Jaycees “Outstanding Young American”; among others. Sofia has been recognized for her public service by the City of Houston with a proclamation of July 10, 2004 & December 18, 2018, as “Sofia Adrogué Day.” 

Hon. Grant Dorfman

Governor Abbott appointed Grant Dorfman to the new Eleventh Business Court Division in Houston on June 14, 2024, and he has been elected by his colleagues to serve as the Administrative Presiding Judge for the initial two-year term of the Court. Judge Dorfman previously served as Judge of the 129th and 334th District Courts of Harris County. In between his terms of judicial service, Judge Dorfman worked as Senior In-House Counsel in charge of litigation for Nabors Industries, the world’s largest land-based drilling contractor; an Of Counsel attorney with Sheehy, Ware & Pappas; a mediator and arbitrator, and state court visiting judge; and, most recently, as the Deputy First Assistant to the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A native Texan, Judge Dorfman graduated from Brown University with an A.B. in Honors History magna cum laude and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. He also obtained a Master of Studies (M.St.) in History and Political Philosophy from Oxford University and a J.D. from the Yale Law School. After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and, prior to taking the bench, practiced commercial litigation for ten years with two Houston law firms: Susman Godfrey and Ogden, Gibson, White & Broocks.

Judge Dorfman currently serves on the boards of the University of Houston Law Review, HSPVA Friends (supporting the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts), and the Texas Association of Retired, Senior and Former Judges. He has in the past served as a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College and as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Houston Law Center. A life fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation and a sustaining life fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, Judge Dorfman is also a member of the Federalist Society and the American Law Institute, and served as an officer on the Houston Bar Association’s Communities in Schools and Professionalism Committees; an ASTAR (Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource) Judge; judicial liaison to the HBA Securities Litigation & Arbitration Section; and served on the State Bar Pattern Jury Charge Committee and the Supreme Court Code of Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee.