The Texan Corpus Christi

Robby Chapman

Robby Chapman was hired to be the City of Cedar Park’s municipal court prosecutor July 18. Chapman is a native Central Texan who grew up in Austin and attended Westwood High School. Chapman wanted to come back to his roots and raise his young children in Cedar Park, an area he says has a lot to offer for his family.

Before Chapman came to Cedar Park, he prosecuted Class A and Class B Misdemeanors in Nueces County, a coastal county that contains Corpus Christi. Prior to his work in Nueces County, Chapman worked for himself at the Law Office of Robby Chapman for several months, interned at the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office and was a student attorney at the St. Mary’s Center for Legal and Social Justice. The center provides representation for people charged with all levels of offenses—misdemeanors and felonies—who can’t afford to pay for legal representation.

Chapman started work at the Cedar Park Municipal Court in mid-July.

It probably wasn’t until later after I graduated from college. I went to UT Austin, and when I graduated I was thinking about it, but I wasn’t sure. I went into retail—I was an assistant store manager down at Macy’s at Barton Creek—and then I decided to go. So I applied (to St. Mary’s University in San Antonio) and got in and that was that.

Yes, I was always interested in it. I grew up watching “Law & Order” and all the lawyers on TV, the courtroom dramas, even reruns of “Perry Mason,” he’s a defense attorney, but he’s in the courtroom. So, I was interested in practicing criminal law. Then, my second year in law school I interned at the Bexar County DA’s office, and that’s when I decided I knew I wanted to do prosecution. As a third-year student, you can practice law if another attorney supervises you, so I worked in (St. Mary’s Center for Legal and Social Justice) as a student defense attorney representing people who couldn’t afford to be represented. So I saw both sides of it.

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