Federal Bar Association - Southern District of Texas Chapter

Federal Bar Association - Southern District of Texas Chapter The S.D. Tex. Chapter is dedicated to serving the needs of both the bar and bench in the District. Baker, III, and Professor Alan Dershowitz.

The Southern District of Texas Chapter of the Federal Bar Association is dedicated to serving the needs of both the bar and bench in the Southern District of Texas. Established in 1959, the Southern District of Texas Chapter is the largest Federal Bar Chapter in geographic size, spanning the entire Southern District of Texas and encompassing all seven of its divisions. Our Chapter has become the s

econd largest chapter of the FBA in Texas, with a membership of more than 260. Our Chapter members come from private practice, government agencies, military branches, local law schools, and the judiciary. The Chapter is committed to improving federal practice throughout the Southern District of Texas. Our Chapter holds regular CLE luncheons with speakers ranging from federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, heads of federal agencies, and lawyers involved in prominent federal cases. In addition to our monthly CLE luncheons in Houston, the Chapter sponsors various CLE events in other cities throughout the District. The Chapter also awards Blask Fellowships each year to law students interning with federal courts or agencies located within the Southern District. The Blask Fellowships honor the memory of Magistrate Judge Ronnie Blask, a former Chapter President. Recent Fellowship recipients have interned for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District, Magistrate and Bankruptcy Judges, as well as federal agencies such as the U.S. Attorney’s Office, NASA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Each year the Chapter also supports the Michael Taylor Shelby Award for professionalism in federal service. This award recognizes an attorney in federal service working within the Southern District who has exhibited outstanding dedication, ethics, and professionalism. The Chapter also hosts a gala dinner honoring all of the federal judges of the Southern District. Recent Annual Dinner speakers include United States Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Secretary James A. We invite you to join us at any of our many events. If you have not already done so, we also invite you to join the Federal Bar Association and the Southern District of Texas Chapter. A Young Lawyers Division has been formed for those who are age 36 or younger or have practiced less than three years. Please contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in participating.

Thanks to the judges from the Brownsville for participating in a fantastic CLE today. Thanks also to our amazing divisio...
05/21/2026

Thanks to the judges from the Brownsville for participating in a fantastic CLE today. Thanks also to our amazing division representative, Sara Stapleton Barrera, who planned and moderated today’s program, and thank you to our co-host , which also sponsored, as well as sponsors Atlas, Hall & Rodriguez and Stapleton &Stapleton! It was a well attended and very informative event.

The lawyers on the panel were passionate about and college sports, and it resulted in an incredibly engaging and inf...
05/20/2026

The lawyers on the panel were passionate about and college sports, and it resulted in an incredibly engaging and informative program. Many thanks to these lawyers for being on the panel and to everyone who helped plan and attended.

We are pleased to announce our 2026 Blask Fellows! These students are working for federal courts or agencies this summer...
05/17/2026

We are pleased to announce our 2026 Blask Fellows! These students are working for federal courts or agencies this summer, including working with federal judges in the Houston, Brownsville, or Galveston divisions, and learning from attorneys in the U.S. Attorney’s office, ICE, or the Federal Public Defender’s office. Please join us in congratulating these students!

Floridell Berry, University of Texas School of Law
Chidera Ekwem, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Austin Espey, Harvard Law School
Stephen Ferrer, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Armando Garza, University of Houston Law Center
Vivian Gee, SMU Dedman School of Law
Hannah Kay, University of Houston Law Center
Makenzie Lohman, University of Houston Law Center
Daniel Pierce, South Texas College of Law Houston
Young Smith, South Texas College of Law Houston
Dean Toumajian, University of Texas School of Law
Judie Enkhjin Usukhbayar, South Texas College of Law Houston
Sarah Williams, University of Houston Law Center
Shiva Zamen, South Texas College of Law Houston

Thank you to the Blask Foundation, which funds these fellowships, and all of the firms that support our Annual Dinner, which raises funds for the Blask Foundation.

Breaking News!! We are starting a newsletter. This will be a quarterly publication, and we are going to fill it with new...
05/11/2026

Breaking News!! We are starting a newsletter. This will be a quarterly publication, and we are going to fill it with news federal practitioners from throughout the district will find helpful. Submit your ideas and articles here by May 29 via the form linked at the QR code in the second picture.

Galveston Chambers Chat and Courthouse Tour.
05/10/2026

Galveston Chambers Chat and Courthouse Tour.

We are co-hosting a CLE in Brownsville with the about federal practice in the Brownsville Division! RSVP as noted on th...
05/01/2026

We are co-hosting a CLE in Brownsville with the about federal practice in the Brownsville Division! RSVP as noted on the flyer. Thanks to Atlas, Hall & Rodriguez for sponsoring!

Our May CLE is a game changer! Or, rather, it’s about a game changer. Join us in person or online to learn more about NI...
04/27/2026

Our May CLE is a game changer! Or, rather, it’s about a game changer. Join us in person or online to learn more about NIL in college sports. Sign up on our EventBrite site—or find the link on the events page of our website, fbasdtx.org.

hosted our first law student event, and it was wonderful! Thank you to STCL student and Chapter Education Committee mem...
04/23/2026

hosted our first law student event, and it was wonderful! Thank you to STCL student and Chapter Education Committee member Caroline Burchett and to Chapter student member Catherine Crawford for their work on the event.

Thank you so much to President Santos Vargas and Andrea Belanger for coming to Houston for our monthly CLE today. Mr. ...
04/21/2026

Thank you so much to President Santos Vargas and Andrea Belanger for coming to Houston for our monthly CLE today. Mr. Vargas’s remarks were both inspiring and informative.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to chat with the two federal judges sitting in Galveston! On May 8, the SDTX Chapter, a...
04/21/2026

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to chat with the two federal judges sitting in Galveston! On May 8, the SDTX Chapter, along with the Galveston County Bar Association and the Litigation  Section of the State Bar of Texas, are pleased to announce the opportunity to attend this Chambers Chat, hosted by Hon. Jeffrey Brown and Hon. Andrew Edison, at the Galveston Federal Courthouse. RSVP through Jordan Raschke Elton, the Chapter’s Galveston Division Representative, as indicated on the flyer.

Thank you to Jordan for all of her work putting together this event.

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