Judge Todd T. Wong

The Honorable Judge Todd T. Wong was elected in November 2014 and continues to serve as Judge of Travis County Court at Law #1.  He is the first Asian American elected county-wide in Travis County, Texas (Austin).  Prior to the bench, Judge Wong had over 28 years of civil litigation experience with firms in Dallas and Austin.  He is a 1986 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.  He served as Executive Editor of the Texas International Law Journal.  Prior to law school, he graduated from Baylor University.

He currently serves as president the board of Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas; as a member of the community advisory board of the local APAPA (Asian Pacific American Public Affairs); and served as president the Lloyd Lochridge Inn of Court. 

He has previously served as a director for the Austin Bar Association, president of the Asian American Bar Association of Austin, president of the Austin Young Lawyers Association, director of the Texas Young Lawyers Association, the Central Texas chapter of the American Red Cross, Austin Bar Foundation Board, member of the community advisory board of the Junior League of Austin, and a member of the Leadership Austin class, 1993.  He has also served as president of the South Austin Democrats and received its “Yeller Dawg” Award  and Capital Area Progressive Democrats “Kick Ass” Award.

Judge Wong was named “Outstanding Young Lawyer of Austin” (1992), “Outstanding Director of the Austin Bar Association” (2011-2012), named a “Texas Super Lawyer” (2006-2009), a recipient of the Austin Bar Foundation’s “David Walter Community Excellence Award (2006) and recipient of the College of the State Bar’s Humanitarian Award (2006). He was also a finalist in KVUE TV’s “Five Who Care” Community Service Awards (1992). Judge Wong and his wife have two adult children and two dogs.