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. Initially 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 that 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 32, a web designer and employee of Hurley and Guinn Attorneys at Law, and Jennifer, age 28, completing her degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2008 from Texas Tech and presently working in the DNA Lab at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. My hobbies are parenting, taking care of our numerous pets, and gardening.