Personal Background
Served as briefing attorney to the Honorable Richard H. Edelman at the Fourteenth Court of Appeals from 1998 through 1999, before joining the Lanier Law Firm. She resides in Katy, Texas with her husband, Glenn, and their three children.
Representative Cases
- Member of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee in the Opioid Multidistrict litigation in the state of Texas and has actively worked to negotiate and achieve over a billion dollars to the counties and cities in the state to combat the opioid crisis
- Part of the national trial team that won a historic verdict against retail pharmacies operated by Walmart, CVS and Walgreens finding that they failed to follow guidelines that would have curtailed the staggering distribution of highly addictive opioid painkillers
- A record setting $4.69 billion verdict on behalf of 22 women and their families who alleged that decades of daily use of Johnson & Johnson’s asbestos-laden talcum powder products caused their ovarian cancer
- $247 million verdict against DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and Johnson & Johnson
- $528 million verdict against DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and Johnson & Johnson
- $1.05 billion verdict against DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and giant Johnson & Johnson
- $9 billion-dollar Actos verdict against Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Eli Lilly & Co
- $253 million in the first Vioxx® verdict in the U.S. (Ernst v. Merck)
Community and Professional Activities
- Member of the Houston Bar Association
- Member of The State Bar of Texas
- Member of the American Association of Justice
- Serves on the Board of Directors of The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University