He will teach one class during the spring semester and two classes next fall.

HOUSTON - Outgoing Harris County Judge Ed Emmett will soon take up teaching, he announced on Tuesday.

Emmett said he has accepted an offer letter from Rice University and will be a non-tenured professor and senior fellow beginning January 1, 2019.

He will teach one class during the spring semester and two classes next fall.

The first class will be taught at the Kinder Institute on the inside of the state legislature and it's unclear at this time what he will teach in the two classes next fall.

NEW: Outgoing Harris County Judge @EdEmmett says he’s accepted an offer letter from @RiceUniversity to be a non-tenured professor and senior fellow at the @RiceKinderInst starting Jan. 1. He’ll teach 1 Spring class on #txlege , 2 fall classes, and help w/policy projects. #khou11 pic.twitter.com/WTjysO9NTL — Adam Bennett (@AdamBennettKHOU) December 4, 2018