Continuing our series of interviews with candidates in the 2014 Texas Republican Party Primary, David Jennings talks with Chuck Meyer. Chuck is one of twelve candidates that filed to replace Rep. Steve Stockman in Texas Congressional District 36.
Information about Chuck Meyer:
Website: MeyerforCongress.com (under construction as of 12/31/13)
Facebook: ElectChuckMeyer
Twitter: ElectChuckMeyer
Bio provided by the Chuck Meyer campaign:
Chuck Meyer is an Assistant District Attorney for Hardin County, Texas (part-time) for Appeals and Writs. He is also a Registered Patent Attorney and a Partner with the national law firm of FisherBroyles, LLP, a “Law Firm 2.0®” law firm. He has represented a number of small businesses in Lumberton and throughout the Congressional District, many on a pro bono basis. When Chuck is not on the campaign trail, he spends most of his time in Lumberton, Texas, and is a frequent commentator on governance matters. He has a slew of ideas on how to reform Congress. In 2013, the Lone Star Republicans elected him as their first President. He is the former Chief Legal Officer of Research In Motion (now BlackBerry®) and also served on the business side of that technology firm as the Vice President, Europe for several years in England.
He is a member of the Federal Relations subcommittee of the Greater Houston Partnership and is an active member of several community, professional and political organizations, including the Hardin County Rotary Club, the Lumberton Chamber of Commerce (as an Ambassador), the Houston Maritime Arbitration Association, the Houston International Arbitrators Club, the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). He is a former visiting assistant professor of intellectual property law at the University of Houston Law Center and at the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
Chuck began his professional career as an electronics engineer with the Department of Defense in the Pentagon. After a few years, he transferred to the US Patent and Trademark Office to become a patent examiner in the software-implemented inventions unit. While a patent examiner, Chuck put himself through law school at night at the American University’s Washington College of Law. After graduation, Chuck became a judicial law clerk for a Reagan-appointed United States District Court Judge in Honolulu, Hawaii. Two years later, Chuck was appointed as a judicial law clerk to a Republican Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court.
In 2005, he earned a graduate degree in law from the University of Oxford, having earlier obtained a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, an M.S. degree in Operations Research from George Washington University and a JD degree from the Washington College of Law of the American University. He has had a varied and successful career as an engineer, a patent examiner, a judicial law clerk, a lawyer in both private practice and in-house with two corporations (Compaq and RIM), a business leader in a publicly-traded company, and more recently as a Registered Patent Attorney and Partner with a national entrepreneurial law firm, FisherBroyles, LLP, and as a part-time Assistant District Attorney for Hardin County.
Chuck has been married for over thirty years to Monika Voigt Meyer, and is the proud father of three daughters, Kathryn (21) Emily (18) and Laura (15). His Christian faith — the faith of his fathers — is Roman Catholic.