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Judge Brent Keis of Texas examined the benefits and limitations to litigants of the Texas Rules of Procedure pertaining to discovery in his article The Discovery Process: Have we Misdiagnosed the Disease? in Volume 56 of the 1993 The Texas Bar Journal. In the same year, he served on the faculty of the Texas College for New Judges, where he was a contributor to the Benchbook for the Texas Judiciary. Subsequently, he was managing editor of the Tarrant County Benchbook from 1995 to 2001, published by Texas Lawyer Press. During this time, he was an Adjunct Professor, teaching trial tactics at Texas Wesleyan University, School of Law from 1997 to 1998 and was member of the Judcial PEER Committee, for Texas Center for the Judiciary from 1991 to 1997.

Judge Brent Keis is a Phi Beta Kappa graduated of the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree, with honors in 1976 and his Bachelor of Arts degree, with high honors in 1973, with a major in History. He was also honored with membership in the academic fraternities, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Alpha Theta. After attending night school for several years, Judge Keis received a Master of Arts degree in Lay Ministry, in 2004, from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Judge Keis as twice been awarded The Bruce Auld Award (1998, 2004) for his contribution to alternative dispute resolution and was elected a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and the Tarrant County Bar Foundation in recognition of his service and devotion to the highest traditions of the Bar.

Prior to his years as a private attorney and Texas Judge, Judge Keis was an officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He served on active duty from 1976 to 1979 in the Navy's Judge Advocate Corps. He received his Honorable Discharge in 1990 at the rank of Lieutenant Commander.