Tex. R. Disciplinary P. 4.01

The Commission for Lawyer Discipline is hereby created

as a permanent committee of the State Bar and is not subject to dissolution by the Board under

Article VIII of the State Bar Rules. The Commission must be composed of twelve members. Six

members shall be attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of Texas and in good standing as

members of the State Bar. Six members shall be public members who have, other than as

consumers, no interest, direct or indirect, in the practice of law or the profession of law. No person

may serve as a member of the Commission while he or she is a member of a Committee, an officer

or Director of the State Bar, an employee of the State Bar, or an officer or director of the Texas

Young Lawyers Association; provided, however, the Chairman of the Board of the State Bar shall

appoint a Director of the State Bar as an adviser to the Commission and a Director of the State Bar

as an alternate adviser to the Commission, and the President of the Texas Young Lawyers

Association shall appoint a Director of the Texas Young Lawyers Association as an adviser to the

Commission. Members of the Commission and its advisers will be compensated for their

reasonable, actual, and necessary expenses, and members, but not advisers, will be compensated

for their work as determined by the Board to be appropriate.