David Lat of AbovetheLaw.com does a good job here of analyzing the various candidates for the two “Texas” Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judgeships that will be opening soon with Judges Patrick Higginbotham and Harold DeMoss taking senior status. Houston judges George C. Hanks, Jr. (First Court of Appeals), Jennifer W. Elrod (190th District Court), Jane Bland (First Court of Appeals) and U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal are on the short list, as is former Houstonian, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson. This should be quite a competition, so stay tuned.