About Member
Bethke serves as the director of the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense charged with implementing a statewide system of standards, financing and other resources for criminal defendants unable to hire attorneys. This past year, he served as the presiding officer of the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions. He is a member of the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit. He is a past-chair of the Juvenile Law Exam Commission for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He currently serves on the Indigent Defense Advisory Group (IDAG) for the ABA Standing Committee for Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and is a Texas Bar Foundation Life Fellow. He is a U.S. Army veteran from the 101st Airborne Division, is a graduate of the University of Texas at Tyler and the Texas Tech University law school.