Judge Brown was appointed to the bench in 2018 and became the first African American woman judge in the Northern District of Texas and the first Choctaw woman judge in American history. Prior to her federal appointment, she presided over Dallas County’s oldest criminal trial court and served as a state appellate judge on the Fifth District Court of Appeals for six years. In between her state court judicial appointments, she went into private practice with McKool Smith, where she focused on high-stakes patent infringement and complex commercial litigation.
Judge Brown graduated magna cum laude from Spelman College and was a Presidential Scholar at Emory University School of Law. In 2024, she graduated from Duke University School of Law’s LLM program.
Judge Brown enjoys volunteering by serving on various commissions and committees and legal writing.