or "Jack" Folley, was a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from September 21, 1945, to April 1, 1949.
[1] When President Woodrow Wilson instituted a draft for soldiers to serve in World War I, Folley registered in June 1918, and was assigned to Camp Travis, near San Antonio, where Folley remained in a unit responsible for laundry and clothing repair until the war ended the following year.
[2] In 1945, Texas voters approved an amendment to the state constitution which expanded the state's supreme court from three members to nine, transferring the Commissioners to the Court by operation of law.
[2] Folley remained on the court until his resignation in April 1949, authoring 63 opinions in his four-and-a-half year tenure.
He then resumed the practice of law with various firms,[2] and was the 20th President of the State Bar of Texas from 1959 to 1960.