- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation
- Life Founding Fellow, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation
- Member, Federal Bar Association
- Member, The Federalist Society
- Member, Northern District of Texas Bench-Bar Conference Organizing Committee
- Volunteer, Constitution Day, The Federalist Society and Bill of Rights Institute
- Volunteer judge, moot court competitions, SMU Dedman School of Law and Texas A&M University School of Law
- Assistant scoutmaster, Boy Scout Troop 746
- Chair, St. Pius X Church Finance Council
- Past secretary, board of trustees, The Catholic Foundation
- Past chair, Governance Committee
- Past chair, Audit and Administration Committee
- Past vice chair, board, Bishop Lynch High School
- Past chair, Advancement and Marketing Committee
- Past member, Presidential Search Committee
- Past president, Dallas Chapter of Legatus
- Member, Commemorating in Dallas the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Organizing Committee (2015)
- Past president, St. Thomas More Society, Dallas Chapter
- Past secretary, treasurer, and director, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1988, note editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
- University of Kansas, B.S., with distinction, Mortar Board; Phi Kappa Phi, 1985
Bar Admissions
- Texas
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- Moderator, “Procedural Pitfalls: Navigating the Nuances of Removal,” Northern District of Texas Bench-Bar Conference, April 2024.
- Author, “Costs and Disbursements,” Fifth Edition of Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, a project of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation and Thomson Reuters, December 2021.