High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wallace Bernard Jefferson (born July 22, 1963) is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. His current term ends on December 31, 2014.Jefferson has three times made Texas judicial history. In 2001, Governor Rick Perry appointed him the first African American Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and then again in 2004 he was appointed the first African American Chief Justice. In November 2002, Jefferson also became, along with Justice Dale Wainwright, one of the first two African Americans elected to the Court.