LICENSE AND MEMBERSHIPS
State Bar of Texas Member
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

EDUCATION
J.D., South Texas College of Law- 1997 Dean's List
Managing Editor, Corporate Counsel Law Review

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2005 to Present: Cheryl F. Coleman, P.C., Houston, Texas.
March 2000 to September 2005: Assistant Attorney General, Office of the
Attorney General - Child Support Division, Houston, Texas
Legal Forms Committee, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, Texas.
August 1997 to March 2000: Associate Editor & Managing Legal Editor (1999
2000), Jones McClure Publishing/O'Connor's, Houston, Texas.

LEGAL INTERNSHIPS/EXTERN SHIPS
Judge Vanessa Gilmore, United States District Court~ Southern District ofTexas-1 996
Judge Timothy Taft, 14th District Court of Appeals, Houston, Texas- 1996
Judge Dwight Jefferson, 215th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas -1997
United States Congress, Congressman John Bryant, Washington, D.C.- 1990

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Houston Bar Association
Houston Lawyers Association

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section
Texas Family Law Group
MemorandumofLaw: Ly v. State ofrexas, 908 S.W. 2d 598 (Tex. App.Houston [14th District] 1996).
Managing Legal Editor, 1999 O'Connor's Texas Trial Forms Book, Jones McClure Publishing
Managing Legal Editor, 2000 O'Connor's Evidence Handbook, Jones McClure Publishing
International Abduction of Children: Conflict ofLaws, Federal Statutes, and
Judicial Interpretation of the Hague Convention, (Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy,
F all2oos ), co-author.
Speaker, 22nd Annual Family Law Conference, South Texas College of Law, March, 2008

COMMUNITY ACTIVITES
Mentor, Child and Adolescent Development Incorporated
Volunteer, Covenant House Charities