Local News. Brownwood News – It was 1976 . He had just graduated from law school, and gotten married. He needed a job, but he wanted more than a job. He wanted a home, a place to settle and raise a family. He didn’t know where that might be.
Once here, Price introduced him to several “movers and shakers” in Brownwood, such as Groner Pitts, J. Ed Johnson, Richard Sharpe, and Jack Pilon.
He is a cattle rancher and member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Steve has three children, all of whom are attorneys today: Becca Whitacre, in Waco; John Ellis, in Austin; and Joe Ellis, in San Antonio. His first wife Debby died from cancer in 2006.
Ellis went to college at Baylor University in Waco, and then stayed there for three more years to attend Baylor Law School, graduating in 1976. Along the way, he met and married “the prettiest girl in law school,” his first wife Debby. While in law school, he met Gary Price, from Brownwood.
His parents were both natives of Central Texas, but were living in Silver City, New Mexico when Steve was born. As Steve’s father moved up in his profession, the family moved often, just a few years in any one town, living in many different towns in New Mexico and Texas as he grew up, eventually graduating from high school in Texas City, Texas. ...
Judge Ellis has conducted his job as the presiding judge of the 35th Judicial District Court of Texas with great professionalism, with great patience, and with great knowledge of the many kinds of laws that he deals with every day. He always listens to both sides of a case before he makes a decision in court and so lawyers can expect that Judge Ellis will give them a fair hearing and that he will be fair and firm in his decisions. He does not relish giving long sentences to criminal defendants and he has made it very clear, over the years, that he gets no pleasure when he sentences a person to serve time in prison. He always tells persons who are being place onto probation that he wants them to succeed with their probated sentences and he encourages persons on probation to get their G.E.D. if they have not finished high school.
In 1996, the then-current District Judge, Ernest Cadenhead, announced that he would not run for re-election. Ellis threw his hat in the ring in a three-way race that also included Don Clements and Frank Griffin. Ellis emerged the winner, and has held the job for 24 years.
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