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F. Top Non-Lawyers Giving To the Justices
| Money To | No. of | |||
| Donor | Justices | Company | Interest | Checks |
| Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. |
$58,486
|
Beecherl Investments | Energy |
22
|
| Peter O'Donnell, Jr. |
$55,000
|
1st Nat'l Bank (retired) | Finance |
12
|
| Harold Simmons |
$50,500
|
Contran Corp | Finance |
21
|
| Charles C. Butt |
$50,229
|
HEB Grocery | Misc. Business |
13
|
| James R. Leininger |
$47,000
|
Kinetic Concepts | Medical |
13
|
| Gordon Cain |
$45,000
|
Sterling Group | Chemical |
17
|
| Bob J. Perry |
$42,000
|
Perry Homes | Construction |
13
|
| Ray L. Hunt |
$41,000
|
Hunt Oil Co. | Energy |
13
|
| Robert C. McNair |
$32,000
|
Cogen Technologies | Energy |
9
|
| B. J. "Red" McCombs |
$31,585
|
Red McCombs Ent. | Transportation |
13
|
| James A. Elkins, Jr. |
$28,750
|
retired banker | Finance |
20
|
| Patrick R. Rutherford |
$28,500
|
Rutherford Oil | Energy |
15
|
| H. R. Perot, Jr. |
$27,500
|
Hillwood Development | Real Estate |
17
|
| W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. |
$25,500
|
Moncrief Oil | Energy |
17
|
| Robert B. Rowling |
$25,195
|
TRT Holdings | Energy |
11
|
| Dennis Berman |
$23,753
|
Denitech Corp | Misc. Business |
8
|
| Kenneth L. Lay |
$22,000
|
Enron Corp | Energy |
9
|
| Reese M. Rowling |
$19,000
|
TRT Holdings | Real Estate |
9
|
| Frances H. Chiles |
$18,500
|
Western Co. (owner's widow) | Energy |
16
|
| Thomas H. Cruikshank |
$18,000
|
Halliburton (retired) | Construction |
14
|
| William A. McMinn |
$18,000
|
Sterling Group | Chemical |
10
|
| Richard W. Weekley |
$17,000
|
Weekley Properties | Real Estate |
10
|
| Jack E. Brown |
$16,500
|
Wagner & Brown Ltd | Energy |
9
|
| George P. Mitchell |
$16,500
|
Mitchell Energy | Energy |
13
|
| H. B. Zachry, Jr. |
$16,250
|
H. B. Zachry, Co. | Construction |
14
|
|
TOTAL
|
$773,748
|
338
|
Excluding attorneys, the justices top 25 other individual contributors gave them almost three-quarters of a million dollars—or 7 percent of the money that they raised. Many of these donors are executives from the same businesses and industries that dominated the list of top business donors on the previous page. Most of these businessmen also have huge interests in how the justices rule on tort lawsuits. Many of them play leading roles in Texans for Lawsuit Reform or the Texas Civil Justice League.