E. Scott Frost

Frost was born in 1962.[1] Frost received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1984 from Angelo State University. He received a Juris Doctor in 1987 from the Texas Tech University School of Law. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Samuel Ray Cummings of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, from 1987–1988. From 1988–1990, he worked as an associate for the law firm of McLean, Sanders, Price, Head & Eliss (now Brackett & Ellis, PC). From 1990–2011, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.[2] From 2011–2019, he served as a United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.[3] From 2013–2019, he served on the Operations Committee for that court.

On March 15, 2016, President Obama nominated Frost to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, to the seat vacated by Judge Samuel Ray Cummings, who assumed senior status on December 31, 2014.[4] On September 7, 2016 a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on his nomination.[5] His nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the 114th Congress.