Robert 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 and as a United States Magistrate Judge.

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, he earned his law degree from the University of Texas and a masters in law from the University of Oxford. Following law school, he clerked for U.S. District Judge David O. Belew in the Northern District of Texas.

He then practiced as an associate at Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright) before joining the U.S. Attorney’s office, where he spent twelve years prosecuting a wide variety of federal criminal cases.

He has also taught as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas, where he taught courses in the law school and in the undergraduate Plan II Honors program.

Judge Pitman sits in the Austin Division of the Western District of Texas.