John A. Kazen was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on January 9th, 2024. Previously, he was a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2018. Previously, Judge Kazen was a partner at the law firm he founded in 1997, Kazen, Meurer, & Pérez, L.L.P. Prior to that, he was a civil litigator at Kemp, Smith, Duncan, & Hammond, P.C. between 1991 and 1997. Judge Kazen clerked for Judge Robert Parker on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in 1990. He received his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 1990 and his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.