A judge recommended last week that the Texas Funeral Service Commission give a Houston-area Army veteran his funeral director license after the commission made him give it up two years ago — a decision two of the commission’s former executive directors and other fired staff have used to criticize the embattled state agency.
Administrative Law Judge Robert Pemberton with the State Office of Administrative Hearings ruled Tuesday that the commission violated former Army Sgt. Desaray Wilson’s due process rights by denying his latest application last September for a funeral director license.
“This was the verdict and the conclusion that I prayed for and that I looked forward to,” Wilson said in an interview with KERA Thursday. “I don’t think it’s a loss to the funeral service commission, because you gained another licensed professional.”…