8 Texas Bar Journal • January 2015 texasbar.com BEN L. ADERHOLT is an attorney with Coats Rose in Houston, where he focuses his practice on commercial transactions and litigation in the construction industry. He is a past president of the Houston Bar Associ- ation and a past director of the State Bar of Texas. He is a former chair of the Houston Mayor’s International Trade and Develop- ment Council for the Americas. He teaches commercial law at the University of Hous- ton and construction law at South Texas College of Law. DIANE DEVASTO, of Potter Minton in Tyler, specializes in mediation for patent and other types of civil cases. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, Ameri- can Law Institute, the Eastern District of Texas Bar Association, the Honorable T. John Ward American Inn of Court, and is a past president of the Smith County Bar Associ- ation. DeVasto retired in 2006 as a justice of the 12th Court of Appeals. She serves as the District 2 director of the State Bar of Texas. MICHELLE HOOGENDAM CASH, of the Cash Law Firm in Houston, focuses her prac- tice on employment law matters. She is a member of the employment bar in Houston and has served as chair for several local employment law sections and chapters. She is a past editor-in-chief of Houston Lawyer magazine and a former chair of the State Bar of Texas Women in the Profession Com- mittee. She has been certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1995. TALMAGE BOSTON is a shareholder in the Dallas office of Winstead. He is a past director of the State Bar of Texas and has served as chair of the State Bar’s Litigation Section, Council of Chairs, and Annual Meeting Committee. He is certi- fied in civil trial law and civil appellate law by the Texas Board of Legal Special- ization. Over the past seven years, he has written six feature articles in the Texas Bar Journal. JOE ESCOBEDO JR., of Escobedo & Cardenas in McAllen, specializes in commercial and tort litigation and is a certified mediator. He is certi- fied in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Escobedo is a member of the State Bar Board of Directors, the Council for the Hispanic Issues Section, and the College of the State Bar of Texas. AFTON SANDS-PURYEAR is an attorney with Husch Blackwell in Austin, where she practices commercial and health care litiga- tion in state and federal courts. She is a member of the 2014 LeadershipSBOT class. ALBERT GAVALDON is a criminal defense attorney in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. He is also a court-appointed attorney for indi- gent defendants in Dallas County. He has served as misdemeanor trial chief at the El Paso County Public Defender’s Office and as senior felony trial attorney at the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office. HARPER ESTES is a shareholder in Lynch, Chappell & Alsup in Midland. He is a past pres- ident of the State Bar of Texas and the Midland County Bar Association. Certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, he focuses on commercial litigation. He also frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator. CHAIR JOHN G. BROWNING is a partner in Passman & Jones in Dallas, where he handles commercial litigation, employment, health care, and personal injury defense matters in state and fed- eral courts. He is an award-winning legal journalist for his syn- dicated column, “Legally Speaking,” and the author of the Social Media and Litigation Practice Guide and a forthcoming casebook on social media and the law. He is an adjunct profes- sor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. VICE CHAIR RHONDA HUNTER, a partner in Farrow-Gillespie & Heath in Dallas, is certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She is a past president of the Dallas Bar Association and the J.L. Turner Legal Association. She serves in the American Bar Association House of Delegates and the ABA Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity and is a former member of the State Bar Board of Directors. MEET THE BOARD OF EDITORS
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8 Texas Bar Journal • January 2015 texasbar.com
BEN L. ADERHOLT is an attorney withCoats Rose in Houston, where he focuseshis practice on commercial transactions andlitigation in the construction industry. He isa past president of the Houston Bar Associ-ation and a past director of the State Bar ofTexas. He is a former chair of the HoustonMayor’s International Trade and Develop-ment Council for the Americas. He teachescommercial law at the University of Hous-ton and construction law at South TexasCollege of Law.
DIANE DEVASTO, of Potter Minton in Tyler,specializes in mediation for patent and othertypes of civil cases. She is a member of theState Bar of Texas Board of Directors, Ameri-can Law Institute, the Eastern District ofTexas Bar Association, the Honorable T. JohnWard American Inn of Court, and is a pastpresident of the Smith County Bar Associ-ation. DeVasto retired in 2006 as a justice ofthe 12th Court of Appeals. She serves as theDistrict 2 director of the State Bar of Texas.
MICHELLE HOOGENDAM CASH, of theCash Law Firm in Houston, focuses her prac-tice on employment law matters. She is amember of the employment bar in Houstonand has served as chair for several localemployment law sections and chapters. Sheis a past editor-in-chief of Houston Lawyermagazine and a former chair of the StateBar of Texas Women in the Profession Com-mittee. She has been certified in labor andemployment law by the Texas Board ofLegal Specialization since 1995.
TALMAGE BOSTON is a shareholder inthe Dallas office of Winstead. He is apast director of the State Bar of Texasand has served as chair of the State Bar’sLitigation Section, Council of Chairs, andAnnual Meeting Committee. He is certi-fied in civil trial law and civil appellatelaw by the Texas Board of Legal Special-ization. Over the past seven years, he haswritten six feature articles in the TexasBar Journal.
JOE ESCOBEDO JR., of Escobedo & Cardenasin McAllen, specializes in commercial and tortlitigation and is a certified mediator. He is certi-fied in personal injury trial law by the TexasBoard of Legal Specialization. Escobedo is amember of the State Bar Board of Directors, theCouncil for the Hispanic Issues Section, and theCollege of the State Bar of Texas.
AFTON SANDS-PURYEAR is an attorneywith Husch Blackwell in Austin, where shepractices commercial and health care litiga-tion in state and federal courts. She is amember of the 2014 LeadershipSBOT class.
ALBERT GAVALDON is a criminal defenseattorney in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.He is also a court-appointed attorney for indi-gent defendants in Dallas County. He hasserved as misdemeanor trial chief at the ElPaso County Public Defender’s Office and assenior felony trial attorney at the DallasCounty Public Defender’s Office.
HARPER ESTES is a shareholder in Lynch,Chappell & Alsup in Midland. He is a past pres-ident of the State Bar of Texas and the MidlandCounty Bar Association. Certified in civil triallaw by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization,he focuses on commercial litigation. He alsofrequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator.
CHAIRJOHN G. BROWNING is a partner in Passman & Jones inDallas, where he handles commercial litigation, employment,health care, and personal injury defense matters in state and fed-eral courts. He is an award-winning legal journalist for his syn-dicated column, “Legally Speaking,” and the author of theSocial Media and Litigation Practice Guide and a forthcomingcasebook on social media and the law. He is an adjunct profes-sor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
VICE CHAIRRHONDA HUNTER, a partner in Farrow-Gillespie &Heath in Dallas, is certified in family law by the Texas Board ofLegal Specialization. She is a past president of the Dallas BarAssociation and the J.L. Turner Legal Association. She servesin the American Bar Association House of Delegates and theABA Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity and is a formermember of the State Bar Board of Directors.
MEET THE BOARD OF EDITORS
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DAVID R. MCATEE II is an in-house lawyer atAT&T, where he is a senior vice president andassistant general counsel. He is a past presi-dent of the Texas Young Lawyers Association,a former chair of the Texas Bar Journal Boardof Editors, and a former chair of the Texas BarFoundation Fellows.
WILLIAM L. POPE is a partner in Adams &Graham in Harlingen, where he practicestransactional, commercial, transportation, andemployment litigation. He is a qualified gen-eral civil and family law mediator and hasserved nearly three decades as a municipaljudge and state magistrate.
KAREN S. PRECELLA is a partner in Haynesand Boone in Fort Worth, where she co-chairsthe firm’s appellate practice group, focuses oncivil appeals, and provides legal support for allphases of complex commercial litigation. Sherecently completed three years as co-chair of theAppellate Practice Committee of the AmericanBar Association Section of Litigation, and shehas served as chair of the Texas Pattern JuryCharges Committee for the Business Volume andas a member of the council of the Appellate Sec-tion of the State Bar of Texas.
ANDREW SEFZIK is an attorney with Stras-burger & Price in Frisco, where he practicescommercial litigation in state and federalcourts. He is a member of the 2012 Leadership-SBOT class.
ROBERT PAINTER is a member in the PainterLaw Firm in Houston, where he handles medicalmalpractice cases for plaintiffs. He previouslydefended hospitals and doctors in a Houstonmega-firm’s health law section. Before lawschool, he was a U.S. Army officer, serving as ahospital administrator. He has been the editor-in-chief of Houston Lawyer magazine since 2012.
LAURA GIBSON is a founding partner inOgden, Gibson, Broocks, Longoria & Hall inHouston. She is certified in labor employ-ment law by the Texas Board of Legal Spe-cialization. She is a member of the board ofdirectors of the State Bar of Texas and ispresident-elect of the Houston Bar Associa-tion. Gibson served on the State Bar Adver-tising Review Committee from 2004 to 2010,including three years as chair. She has alsoserved as president of the Association ofWomen Attorneys in Houston and the Hous-ton Lawyer Referral Service. In addition tohandling employment matters, Gibson is anexperienced commercial litigator with anactive trial practice concentrating on finan-cial services litigation.
FRANK A. KING is an assistant attorneygeneral with the General Litigation Division ofthe Texas Attorney General’s Office. He is theimmediate past chair of the Austin Bar Associ-ation’s Civil Litigation Section and serves onthe association’s Judicial Affairs Committeeand Mentoring Program Committee. He is abarrister with the Lloyd Lochridge AmericanInn of Court and a fellow of the Texas BarFoundation. King formerly served on the AustinBar Association Board of Directors, where hereceived the Outstanding Director Award. Healso received the Outstanding Alumnus Awardfrom the Austin Young Lawyers Association.
MILES J. LEBLANC, a graduate of Dart-mouth College and Harvard Law School, isassistant general counsel to the Legal ServicesDepartment of the Houston IndependentSchool District. His public-sector law careerincludes serving as an assistant district attor-ney in Taylor County; a law clerk for JudgeJorge A. Solis of the U.S. District Court for theNorthern District of Texas; an assistant attorneygeneral in the General Litigation, Consumer Pro-tection, and Administrative Law divisions of theOffice of the Texas Attorney General; and in-house legal counsel to the University of Hous-ton and Houston Community College.
MICHAEL C. SMITH, of Siebman, Burg,Phillips & Smith in Marshall, specializes incomplex commercial and intellectual propertylitigation. A former chair of the Local RulesAdvisory Committee of the U.S. District Courtfor the Eastern District of Texas, Smith pub-lishes EDTexweblog.com, a blog on practicein the Eastern District, and edits O’Connor’sFederal Rules—Civil Trials. He is a past chairof the State Bar Litigation Section and theTexas Bar Journal Board of Editors and hasserved on the State Bar Board of Directors.
C. BARRETT THOMAS is a felony prosecutorand family law practitioner in the 32nd JudicialDistrict, which serves Nolan, Mitchell, andFisher counties. Thomas has been a TexasYoung Lawyers Association director since 2011and is the president-elect of TYLA. He is thecreator and co-author of the project RemainingCivil: An Officer’s Guide to Responding to Non-Criminal Calls for Service, which is now taughtat police academies across the state. Thomaspreviously served as treasurer and president ofthe Abilene Young Lawyers Association. TBJ
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