Judge Pitman was appointed United States District Judge by President Barack Obama in 2014. Prior to his appointment, Judge Pitman served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas from 2011-2014. Prior to that appointment, he served as a United States Magistrate Judge in Austin.

He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and earned a masters degree in law from the University of Oxford. He was an associate at Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright) before joining the U.S. Attorney’s office, where he prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases and served in many roles, including Chief of the Austin Division, Deputy U.S. Attorney and Interim U.S. Attorney.

He is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas, where he teaches courses in the law school and in the undergraduate Plan II Honors program.