A graduate of Clark High School in San Antonio, Young was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2021 by Gov. Greg Abbott, replacing Justice Eva Guzman, who resigned to run for Texas Attorney General. Young practiced law in Austin, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and worked in the Justice Department as counsel to the Attorney General under Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey during the George W. Bush administration.
