Judge Love graduated cum laude from Texas A&M University and St. Mary’s University School of Law. After graduating from law school in 1995, Judge Love practiced civil trial law in San Antonio before serving as Chief Staff Attorney with the Twelfth Court of Appeals in Tyler. In 2002, he began serving as Chief Staff Attorney to United States District Judge Leonard Davis. On January 3, 2006, Judge Love was sworn in as United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. He was reappointed for a second term which he began serving on January 3, 2014. Judge Love has been a panelist in numerous federal practice and intellectual property seminars and is the co-author of Complex Patent Cases: Observations from the Bench, which appeared in the Spring 2010 edition of the Southern Methodist University Science and Technology Law Review.