Timothy R. Zinnecker
Professor of Law
“And just as you want men to treat you, treat them the same way."
—Jesus Christ"Practice makes perfect...so be careful what you practice."
—AnonymousIt's nice to be important. It's more important to be nice."
—Anonymous
Education
BSBA, Central Missouri State University
JD, Brigham Young University,
J. Reuben Clark Law School
Email: tzinnecker@stcl.edu
Phone: 713.646.1886
Office: 719T
Areas of expertise:secured transactions, payment systems, and banking.
Biography
Tim Zinnecker joined the South Texas faculty in 1994 and teaches Secured Transactions, Payment Systems, Consumer Bankruptcy, and Banking Law. He is an honors graduate of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU), where he served on the management board of the law review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Following judicial clerkships with the Hon. Frank X. Gordon (Arizona Supreme Court) and the Hon. Edith H. Jones (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), he practiced commercial law with a leading firm in Dallas and Houston for five years. He also has taught at Samford University, Florida State University, University of Houston, and University of Richmond. He is the co-author of a Payment Systems casebook (Carolina Academic Press), the co-author of two study aids in the LexisNexis “Q&A” series, the author of a book on the default provisions of UCC Article 9 (ABA), and the author of commercial law articles that have appeared in the Tennessee Law Review (twice), Gonzaga Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Kansas Law Review, Richmond Law Review, Missouri Law Review, Southwestern Law Journal (SMU), and The Business Lawyer.Copyright © 2009, South Texas College of Law