Magistrate Judge Roach is a part-time Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Texas, a position he has held since 1980. Judge Roach attended college at Stanford and the University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1965), and law school at the University of Texas (J.D. 1968).
Following law school, Judge Roach clerked for Judge Halbert O. Woodward, of the Northern District of Texas, from 1968 to 1969. After his clerkship, Judge Roach was an associate, from 1969 to 1971, with the Fort Worth law firm of Law, Snakard, Brown & Gambill. In 1971, he was hired as corporate general counsel for United Services Management, Inc. in Wichita Falls. Following his service as general counsel, in 1975 Judge Roach became an associate and later a partner with Gibson, Hotchkiss, Roach & Davenport.
Judge Roach’s chambers are in Wichita Falls.