Biography
Born April 6, 1949, to Clyde Marshall Metze, Jr., and Sara Smith Metze in Fowler, Kansas, the youngest of four boys. Moved to Levelland, Texas, with the family in early childhood. Father was a lifetime employee of Amoco (formerly Pan American Petroleum Corporation), and mother was a retired elementary school teacher.
Graduated from Levelland High School in 1967. Attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, graduated with a degree in History in 1970. Attended law school at the University of Houston, graduating in 1973. Practiced law in Houston, Texas for a private real estate developer and investor.
In January 1976, established solo general practice of law in Levelland, Texas, county seat of Hockley County, thirty miles west of Lubbock, Texas. Prior to 1986 and the collapse of the oil industry in West Texas, general practice in West Texas included periodic banking, collections, corporate, employee relations, worker’s compensation, personal injury, oil and gas leases and contracts, real estate, criminal and family law. Since the downturn in the oil and gas, real estate and banking industries, general law practice here has a greater emphasis on family and criminal law and less calling for commercial and industrial/labor related problems.
In 2000, my daughter graduated high school and we moved to Lubbock. I still maintain close ties with Hockley and Cochran Counties, as well as most of rural West Texas. I am the single father of two children: Eric, age 30, a web designer, and Jennifer, age 26, completing her degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2008 and presently looking for a graduate school. Both of my children have lived with me until recently and both have attended Texas Tech University. My hobbies are parenting, taking care of our numerous pets, and gardening.