268th District Court

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Judge Steve Rogers is a 7th generation Texan.  His Texas roots date back to the Parker family settlers, whose most famous descendent is his cousin Quanah Parker, the last Comanche Indian Chief.

Judge Rogers is inspired and particularly proud of his third great grandfather’s service, George Augustus Knight, a United States Marshal for the Northern District of Texas, following the Civil War.  After his term of enlistment and reenlistment in the One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Regiment, he served until the surrender.

In 1882, Captain Knight came to Texas and on April 9th, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him as United States Marshall with over 100,000 miles under his control and three federal courts.

The services of eighteen deputies were required; but a greater number of criminals were captured than in all previous administrations. The Captain was a stanch supporter of Republican principles. He was a man of the highest sense of honor and commanded the respect of the community.

A Republican like his 3rd Great Grandfather, Judge Rogers is a native of Houston, and Fort Bend is his family’s home. Before being elected to the 268th District Court, a court of general jurisdiction that handles both civil and criminal cases, Judge Rogers, a second career attorney, spent a decade in sales and insurance then practiced primarily real estate and taxation law for two additional decades.

First, licensed in Arizona, he served as Senior Counsel and General Counsel to multi-national companies and practiced in both local and Federal courts representing civil and criminal clients.  Returning to Houston after twenty-one years, Judge Rogers worked as a lawyer in the oil-services industry before entering public service.

Judge Rogers is a graduate of Regent University School of Law and Trinity Law School, two of the most devout law schools in America.  He earned his undergraduate degree at Baylor University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Judge Rogers and his wife have four children, all of whom have been or are being raised in Fort Bend County.

When Judge Rogers took the bench, he appointed Judge Maggie Jaramillo as his Associate Judge.  First appointed to the bench by Governor Perry to the 400th District Court, she was elevated by Governor Abbott to the Presiding Judge of the 458th District Court. In 2025, Judge Rogers appointed Fort Bend County native and longtime Fort Bend County child abuse prosecutor, Craig Priesmeyer as his Associate Judge.

Judge Rogers ran and won on a Tired of Crime platform.  He works to move as many criminal cases as he can. After he took the bench, he was diagnosed with cancer, but he believes at this time he has beaten the cancer and is cancer free. His famous catch phrase from the bench is “Let’s get to work!”