Top Rated Employment & Labor Attorney in Austin, TX

Honors/Awards:

• Elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2017. The Fellows of the Anerican Bar Foundation is a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, and legal scholars who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the profession and service to society. Fellows are nominated by their peers and elected by the Board of the American Bar Foundation., Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2017
• Invited by the Advisory Board of the Litigation Counsel of America to become a Fellow in this Trial Lawyer Honorary Society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers., Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, 2009

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Board Certified, Civil Trial Law and Labor & Employment Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Bar/Professional Activity:

•  Chair, Women in the Profession Committee of the State Bar of Texas from 2013 through 2016, 2016
• Elected as Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Each year, only one-third of one percent of State Bar members are invited to become Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation., 2014
• Co-Course Director Women in the Law. . . Leading, Empowering, Succeeding  presented by the State Bar of Texas in Austin, Texas, 2014
• American Bar Association, Litigation and Labor and Employment Law Sections; State Bar of Texas, Litigation, Labor and Employment Law, Appellate, and Women in the Law Sections; Austin Bar Association Litigation, Labor and Employment Law and Appellate Sections; Travis County Women Lawyers' Association; College of the State Bar of Texas; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; Chair, Women in the Profession Committee of the State Bar of Texas 2013-2016; Member of Women in the Profession Standing Committee of the State Bar of Texas 2008-2016; Austin Bar Foundation; Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation.
• Selected for Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminient Woment Lawyers
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society; Member, Diversity Law Institute; Member, Institute of Trial Presentation

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Austin Diocese Legal Aid; Volunteer Legal Services

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• Best Attorneys of America, 2016
• Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers-Martindale Hubbell 2013 through the present, 2015
• Elected Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation., 2014
• AV Preeiment Rating, Martindale-Hubbell, Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence

Educational Background:

• Lamar University, BBA-Accounting, With Highest Honors, 1981