Brooks Harrington

Rev. Brooks Harrington is the legal director of the Methodist Justice Ministry, which he founded in 2006. Brooks is a former US Marine infantry officer. He attended George Washington University law school in Washington D.C., graduating cum laude. He then served on a law school faculty in D.C. for two years and as a federal prosecutor there for five more years. He returned to his home in Fort Worth, and was in private litigation practice from 1983 to 1991 and from 1996 to 2006. He has been honored repeatedly by vote of his peers as a “Texas Superlawyer” in Texas Monthly magazine and as one of the top 100 lawyers in Tarrant County in the Fort Worth Business Press.

From 1991 to 1995, Brooks attended Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, graduating summa cum laude, and was senior pastor of Diamond Hill United Methodist Church in north Fort Worth. He was ordained a deacon in 1993 and an elder in the United Methodist Church in 2008. Brooks has served as an Associate Pastor on the clergy staff of First United Methodist Church in downtown Fort Worth and is now full-time as the legal director of the MJM, working six to seven days week.

Brooks has been married for more than 40 years to Maxine Harrington, a retired professor and former Associate Dean of Texas A&M School of Law. They have three children and four grandchildren.

No Mercy, No Justice is Brooks Harrington’s first book.

All net proceeds from the book, as well as speaking honorariums, will directly benefit the Methodist Justice Ministry.