Prior to attending law school, he worked for the Washington, D.C., political consulting firm of Matt Reese & Associates.
Prior to being elected to the First Texas Court of Appeals, Sharp practiced as a general solo practitioner for nineteen years.
[1] In 2016, Sharp lost his bid for the Place 2 seat on the 14th Circuit Court of Appeals, which encompasses part of Harris and nine other counties, including Washington, garnering 30 percent of the vote.
[2] In 2012, Justice Sharp was barred from hearing a neighboring county's cases in a dispute over a shoplifting charge against a friend's daughter.
In a voice mail to a state district court judge in Brazoria County Sharp said, in reference to a detention supervisor, "If I had been there in person and had a baseball bat, that (expletive) would have been cracked upside the head.