Magistrate Judge Cureton became one of the Northern District’s magistrate judges in 2010. He graduated from Baylor University in 1990 and Baylor University School of Law in 1993, where he was a member of the Baylor Law Review. Following law school, Judge Cureton clerked for Judge Mahon of the Northern District of Texas (from 1993-1994 and from 1997-2000). After his first clerkship, Judge Cureton was an associate with Friedman, Young and Suder, P.C. from 1994-1995. He then served the Forth Worth community as an Assistant District Attorney in Tarrant County. Following his stint as an Assistant District Attorney and his second clerkship, Judge Cureton was an associate with the Fillmore Law Firm from 2000-2003. From 2003-2010, Judge Cureton was a partner with the Fort Worth law firm of Cureton & Gordon.
Judge Cureton has also served as an adjunct professor at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, where he taught courses in the area of litigation and trial technique.
Judge Cureton sits in the Northern District’s Fort Worth Division, and his initial term runs through 2018.