Frank Elliott has taught and written about evidence, Texas civil procedure, and alternate dispute resolution for fifty-one years, including forty-one at law schools-nineteen at the University of Texas, three at Texas Tech University, and nineteen at Texas Wesleyan University. He served as Dean at both Texas Tech and Texas Wesleyan. He has been Assistant Attorney General of Texas, Briefing Attorney for the Supreme Court of Texas, Parliamentarian of the Texas Senate, Research Director for the Texas Constitutional Revision Commission, and President of the Southwestern Legal Foundation. He served two tours of duty in the Army, one as a tank platoon leader in Korea, and one as a visiting professor at the Judge Advocate General’s School. He is retired from the Army Reserve in the rank of Colonel. He is a life member of the American Law Institute, is a Life Fellow of the American and Texas Bar Foundations, is the namesake for the Elliott Inn of the international legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi at Texas Wesleyan University, and appears in the New Mexico Military Institute Alumni Hall of Fame.