Douglas E. Markham
doug@callawaybrennig.com

Doug appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 27, 2000 on behalf of plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of a gerrymandered North Carolina congressional district.

Doug is a 1981 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School where Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia taught him contract law, and a Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Doug was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina. He was UNC’s nominee for a Rhodes Scholarship.

He practiced in the trial section of Butler & Binion from 1981. In August 1991 he established an independent practice of law. His experience includes defense of multi-party products liability actions, defense of physicians, hospitals and a medical device manufacturer, directors and officers and the local transit authority. Doug is an expert on local and state demographics.

Recently Doug has litigated Equal Protection Clause and Voting Rights Act cases involving the redrawing of Congressional and other districts in Texas, Virginia, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama. Six of these cases have reached the U.S. Supreme Court. These cases involve trials before federal three judge panels. The cases have gotten extensive media coverage.

He has lectured at continuing legal education programs of the State Bar of Texas, University of Texas, University of Houston, and Arthur Andersen (in Illinois.) He is active in the community as a member of the board of United Republicans PAC. He is active in Timbergrove Manor Neighborhood Association, a past director of the Midtown Civic Club and a former national board and current local president of Hostelling International. He is also a volunteer with the Institute of International Education welcome programs for international graduate students and other visitors and with US Servas.

Doug speaks Russian and French.

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