Wallace Bernard Jefferson (born July 22, 1963) is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from 2004 until October 1, 2013.

[3] Jefferson is a graduate of John Jay High School in San Antonio, Texas, then James Madison College at Michigan State University.

Jefferson was appointed on April 18, 2001, to fill the vacancy left by Alberto R. Gonzales, who resigned to become White House counsel to U.S. President George W. Bush.

In the 2008 general election contest, Jefferson defeated his Democratic Challenger, Dallas District Court Judge Jim Jordan, with 53% of the vote.

Jefferson is now in private practice and occasionally appears before his former colleagues on petitions for review, briefs, or for oral argument.

[10] Before he became a judge, Jefferson successfully argued two cases before the United States Supreme Court: Board of Commissioners of Bryan County, Oklahoma v. Brown, 520 U.S. 397 (1997),[11] and Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District, 524 U.S. 274 (1998).