H. Lon Harper is the former Judge of the 185th State District Court of Harris County Texas, where in four years, he presided in over 280 felony jury trials, including death penalty cases, and thousands of other felony criminal cases.

Judge Harper was correctly reputed to be the toughest Judge in Texas and sent the largest number of convicted felons to the Texas Prison System (TDCJ) for the longest sentences of any Judge in Texas. At the same time, Judge Harper was the Judge most likely to offer drug defendants alternative treatment programs and offer other defendants alternative sentences to reduce overcrowding of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Harper sits as a State District Court Judge at the request and assignment of the Administrative, County and District Court Judges of the State of Texas. In this capacity, Judge Harper has selected capital murder juries for sitting District Court Judges and has conducted many other criminal trials.

He has completed extensive mediation training at both the University of Houston A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center and the Advanced Family Law Mediation Course at the South Texas College of Law. With this training and over 24 years of experience he far exceeds all the requirements of the Texas Civil Code as a State of Texas Qualified Mediator.

Harper has been fully and extensively trained by Baker Communications, Inc. to instruct all of the Baker Communications Training Programs.

A fifth generation Texan, H. Lon Harper is a descendent of pre-Civil War Texas settlers, including a Civil War Era Texas Ranger and an early Texas Judge in Hamilton County.

H A National Merit Scholar and a National Debate and Public Speaking Champion, Harper was a Plan II Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin.

He has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Texas and a Juris Doctor from the South Texas College of Law.

Admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1976, Judge Harper has been a Law Enforcement Officer, a Lawyer and a State District Judge.

He currently is a Judge, sitting by Assignment, a State Qualified Mediator and a Baker Communications, Inc. Programs Training Instructor.

Memberships and Affiliations:

Life Member of the 100 Club which provides for the families of law
enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Life Member of The Navy League Association which provides support
for the United States Navy
Commissioned as an Admiral of the Texas Navy, presented to him by
Texas Governor George W. Bush.
Member of the High I.Q. Society, MENSA.