Attorney Profiles

Nancy  is certified as a Family Law Specialist by the Texas Board of Specialization since 1987 and has been a Qualified Attorney Mediator since 1991. She was in the first group of Texas lawyers to receive Collaborative Law training, in January, 2000. Nancy has been in private practice in Plano, Texas since 1990. Her divorce and family law practice is limited to Collin County, Texas.

Nancy was President of both the Collin County Bar Association and the Plano Bar Association. During her term as President, the Plano Bar Association received the award for Outstanding Bar Association in its size in the State of Texas. Also, while President of the Plano Bar Association, she worked with Judge Curt Henderson and Linda Johnson of Practical Parent Education to develop the "For Kid's Sake" Seminar which is required for all Collin County litigants in family law cases involving children. Nancy was a founding member of the Collaborative Law Alliance of Collin County.

Nancy received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City with distinction in 1977, where she was an issue editor of Law Review and a member of the Interscholastic Moot Court Team. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas with distinction.

Nancy is a member of the State Bar of Texas, State Bar of Missouri, and Eastern District of Texas Federal Court. She is a member of the Collin County Bar Association and the Plano Bar Association. She is a lifetime fellow of the Collin County Bar Foundation and a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. She is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, the College of the Texas State Bar, and the Collaborative Law Alliance of Collin County.

Nancy was a founding board member and officer for five years of the Collin County Women's Shelter, now Hope's Door. She is a past director of Practical Parent Education and the Plano Chamber Orchestra. Nancy was recently selected as a Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly Magazine.

Nancy and her husband live in Plano. They have two adult children.