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We meet In Person
Wednesdays at 12:00 PM
MCM Elegante Hotel & Conference Center
2355 IH 10 South
Beaumont, TX 77705
United States of America
Phone:
(409) 842-1913
June 7, 2023
If you are attending in person, we ask that you use this link to make a reservation by Monday, June 5, 2023. 
 
    
Keith Giblin                 Brit Featherston
District Attorney          United States Attorney
Jefferson County         Eastern District of Texas
 
 

Local federal magistrate Judge Keith Giblin has returned to his roots and joined the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.

Keith Giblin is a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. He originally took his oath of office on October 1, 2004 and was re-appointed for this third term on October 1, 2020. Giblin is a Beaumont native who attended French High School and worked shift work at the Goodyear Chemical Plant while attending Lamar University part-time. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Physics in 1986 and his jurisprudence degree from South Texas College of Law in 1989.

After graduation from law school, Giblin was appointed as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, investigating and prosecuting hundreds of federal criminal cases involving a wide range of matters. He has extensive trial experience, has argued numerous cases before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, served as attorney-in-charge of the Beaumont Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office and taught trial advocacy at the Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. While serving on the bench, Giblin attended the University of Houston Law Center and received his Master of Law degree in intellectual property law in May 2010.

Giblin is in adjunct instructor of criminal law at LU, and is also an ordained Episcopal priest and volunteers as an unpaid priest serving smaller churches in the area. He has also taught religion at All Saints' Episcopal School.

 

Brit Featherston graduate of the 1979 class of Thomas Jefferson High School, U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston proudly hails from Port Arthur, where he matriculated from a young man into a seasoned, 10-year veteran of the city’s police force.
 
He propelled himself from that position into the federal spotlight, joining the DOJ office he now leads back in 1996. The Examiner sat down with Featherston on the anniversary of his appointment to the position by Attorney General Merrick Garland to discuss his ascension to the top prosecutor in Eastern Texas’ 43 counties and his enduring endeavor to toil for justice’s sake.  In the spring of 2022, judges in the Eastern District of Texas voted to keep Featherston in the position he was assigned to Nov. 16, 2021, effectively sealing his role until the President chooses to appoint a new lawyer.  Featherston was one of three federal prosecutors assigned to prosecute the three individuals charged with the 1999 infamous dragging death of James Byrd Jr. After obtaining three convictions, Featherston and the prosecution team received the Attorney General’s highest Award for Exceptional Service.
Featherston, along with the FBI, established the primary command post, and led the criminal investigation response for the space shuttle crash in 2003. In 2010, he was appointed Counsel for Critical Incident Response for all U.S. Attorney’s Offices and worked on the 2011 National Level Exercise as the Department of Justice representative. In 2018, he was awarded a Department of Justice Director’s Award for his efforts during Hurricane Harvey and, in 2019, he received a Department of Justice commendation for outstanding service for his work as the 2018 Justice Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
 
 
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During the Coronavirus crisis, when large gatherings were not permitted, the Rotary Club of Beaumont did the next best thing - we created a live, virtual meeting place using Zoom.  Then, as the pandemic eased and we were able to safely come together again, we began hybrid meetings, allowing member to choose to once again meeting as a group in person or to attend the meeting using Zoom. Though we prefer to be with friends and fellow Rotarians in person, we continue to offer the option to attend meetings virtually for those who are unable to take advantage of the networking and fellowship opportunities only an in-person meeting can provide.
 
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