Dean Steven Goode is the University Distinguished Teaching Professor and W. James Kronzer Chair in Trial and Appellate Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. He is also serving as Dean ad interim (2006). Dean Goode is the author of several books on the law of evidence and served as a reporter to the committees that drafted the Texas rules of evidence. He is currently a member of the Court of Criminal Appeals' Rules Advisory Committee. He lectures on evidence extensively throughout the state, and teaches frequently at the College of Advanced Judicial Studies of the Texas Center for the Judiciary. He is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. In 1998, he was elected to membership in the Academy of Distinguished Teachers of the University of Texas.