[4] Busby received a Bachelor of Arts degree in public policy and international affairs from Duke University and his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.
[5] Before entering private practice, Busby served as a law clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, to retired Associate Justice Byron White of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.
Her predecessor, Jeff Brown, also hails from Houston, and had previously served on a Harris County district court bench, as did Bland and Guzman.
[7] “It's certainly a dream job for me,” Busby is reported as commenting on his appointment, since the Supreme Court had been “grading my papers” during his six years as a state appellate judge.
“It's very exciting to be able to join them.”[8] Busby and Bland now have an opportunity to double-check the work of the new arrivals on the Houston Court of Appeals, though not in cases that were before them in 2018, from which they will have to stand recused.