Greg Coleman (jurist)

Gregory Scott Coleman (October 31, 1963 in San Francisco, California – November 23, 2010 near Destin, Florida) was a Texas lawyer and the first Solicitor General of Texas, serving in that capacity from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that, he served as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit chief judge Edith Jones from 1992–1993; and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (1995–1996), arguing nine cases before the nation's high court in the 1990s. At the time of his appointment as solicitor general, he was working as an adjunct professor at Houston's South Texas College of Law (1993–1995) and taught Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law (2001–2002) where he taught United States Supreme Court Advocacy.

For the classical guitarist, see Gregory Coleman.
Greg Coleman
1st Solicitor General of Texas
In office
1999–2001
Attorney GeneralJohn Cornyn
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJulie Parsley
Personal details
Born
Gregory Scott Coleman

(1963-10-31)October 31, 1963
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedNovember 12, 2010(2010-11-12) (aged 47)
near Destin, Florida, U.S.
Spouse(s)
Stephanie Miller
(
m. 1987)
Children3
EducationTexas A&M University (BS, MBA)
University of Texas School of Law (JD)

He was a lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in its Houston office from 1993–1995, left to clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas from 1995–1996, rejoined the Weil Houston office from 1996–1998, was appointed as the first Solicitor General of Texas from 1999–2001,[1] and rejoined Weil to head its Austin office from 2001–2007.[2]

In 2007, he established his own law firm, Yetter Coleman.[3]

Personal life and Death

Born in San Francisco to a military family, he graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University in 1987, with a degree in applied mathematical sciences, and received an MBA from the same institution in 1989, summa cum laude. In 1992, he graduated from University of Texas School of Law with high honors, Chancellors Academic Honor Society; while there, he was the managing editor of the Texas Law Review.

He married Stephanie Miller Coleman in 1987 and had three sons: Chase, Austin and Reid.

He died on November 23, 2010, when a Piper Malibu plane he was piloting en route to a Thanksgiving family gathering crashed on approach to an airport in Destin, Florida; two other people on board, Coleman's mother-in-law Charlene Miller (63, an assistant vice president of Texas A&M's research and graduate studies division), and her brother, James Black (58, an observer of BP's Gulf Coast restoration program), also died in the crash.[4][5]

He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is remembered as deeply Christian, known for his integrity, honor and generosity both in his personal life and his professional life. He was eulogized by Clarence Thomas, supreme court justice and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit judge, the honorable Edith Jones.[6] His interment was in the Texas State Cemetery, a privilege for those who have served Texas in an honorable capacity.[7]

gollark: Or Great Information Transfer.
gollark: Git stands for GIT Is Tremendous.
gollark: The stages of git clone are: Receive a "pack" file of all the objects in the repo database Create an index file for the received pack Check out the head revision (for a non-bare repo, obviously)"Resolving deltas" is the message shown for the second stage, indexing the pack file ("git index-pack").Pack files do not have the actual object IDs in them, only the object content. So to determine what the object IDs are, git has to do a decompress+SHA1 of each object in the pack to produce the object ID, which is then written into the index file.An object in a pack file may be stored as a delta i.e. a sequence of changes to make to some other object. In this case, git needs to retrieve the base object, apply the commands and SHA1 the result. The base object itself might have to be derived by applying a sequence of delta commands. (Even though in the case of a clone, the base object will have been encountered already, there is a limit to how many manufactured objects are cached in memory).In summary, the "resolving deltas" stage involves decompressing and checksumming the entire repo database, which not surprisingly takes quite a long time. Presumably decompressing and calculating SHA1s actually takes more time than applying the delta commands.In the case of a subsequent fetch, the received pack file may contain references (as delta object bases) to other objects that the receiving git is expected to already have. In this case, the receiving git actually rewrites the received pack file to include any such referenced objects, so that any stored pack file is self-sufficient. This might be where the message "resolving deltas" originated.
gollark: UPDATE: this is wrong.
gollark: > Git uses delta encoding to store some of the objects in packfiles. However, you don't want to have to play back every single change ever on a given file in order to get the current version, so Git also has occasional snapshots of the file contents stored as well. "Resolving deltas" is the step that deals with making sure all of that stays consistent.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Lattman, Peter (March 23, 2007). "Greg Coleman to Leave Weil Gotshal".
  3. "Coleman, Gregory S." Yetter Coleman LLP.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Gregory Coleman Obituary - Austin, TX | Austin American-Statesman".
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2014-02-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Gregory Scott Coleman [11628]". cemetery.tspb.texas.gov.
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1999–2001		 Succeeded by
Julie Parsely
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