Section Leadership

The section is led by its governing council, consisting of 16 members elected for staggered terms of four years each, as well as the section's officers: the Chair, Treasurer, Chair-elect/Secretary, and Immediate Past Chair. The position of chair is held alternately from year to year by a real estate lawyer and a probate and trust lawyer. During years in which a probate and trust lawyer is the chair, the leader of the real estate side of the section is the chair-elect.
 
 

Officers


Chair
Lora G. Davis (Probate)
Davis Stephenson, PLLC
100 Crescent Court
Suite 440
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: (214) 396-8801 
 
 

Chair-Elect/Secretary
Sara E. Dysart (Real Estate)
Sara E. Dysart, P.C.
206 Primera Drive 
San Antonio, TX 78211
Phone: (210) 224-7111 
 
 
 
 
 Treasurer
Lauren Davis Hunt (Probate)
Osborne, Helman, Scott, Knisely & Stanton L.L.P.
301 Congress Ave., Suite 1910
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 542-2000
 
 

Immediate Past Chair
Richard A. Crow (Real Estate)
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
1000 Louisiana St.
Suite 6700
Houston, TX 77002
Phone: (713) 374-3627
 
     

 

Council Members

 
Leslie S. Johnson (Real Estate)
Term Expires 2026
WFG National Title Insurance Company
5000 Legacy Dr.
Suite 190
Plano, TX 75024
Phone: (469) 410-4701

 
 
 
Christian S. Kelso (Probate)
Term Expires 2026
Farrow-Gillespie Heath Witter, LLP
1900 N. Pearl St.
Suite 2100
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: (214) 420-8678
 
 
 
 
R. Shaun Rainey (Probate)
Term Expires 2026
Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, PC
500 W Illinois Ave.
Suite 300
Midland, TX 79701-4337
Phone: (432) 687-8688
 
 
 
Tiffany Soltis (Real Estate)
Term Expires 2026
Wilson Cribbs + Goren
1233 West Loop South
Suite 800
Houston, TX 77027
Phone: (713) 547-8505
 
 
 
Allison Bastian-Rodriguez (Real Estate)
Term Expires 2027
Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech, P.C.
701 East Harrison Ave.
Suite 100
Harlingen, TX 78550
Phone: (956) 421-4904
 
 
 
Ed McCarthy (Real Estate)
Term Expires 2027 
McCarthy & McCarthy, LLP
1122 Colorado St.
Suite 2399
Austin, TX 78701-2132
Phone: (512) 904-2313 
 
 
Elizabeth Powdrill (Probate)
Term Expires 2027 
Hopper Mikeska, PLLC
Barton Oaks II
901 S. Mopac Exp.
Suite 570
Austin, TX 78746
Phone: (512) 615-6195
 
 
Gus G. Tamborello (Probate)
Term Expires 2027 
Gus G. Tamborello, P.C.
1455 West Loop South
Suite 775
Houston, TX 77027
Phone: (713) 659-7777
 
 
Michael Baird
Term Expires 2028 
Baird Law PLLC
242 W Sunset Rd Ste 201
San Antonio, TX 78209-2610
 
 
 
Jobe Jackson
Term Expires 2028 
Langley Banack
745 E Mulberry Ave Ste 900
San Antonio, TX 78212-3141
 
 
 
Meredith McIver
Term Expires 2028 
Osborne, Helman, Scott, Knisely & Stanton, LLP
3800 N Lamar Blvd., Ste. 350
Austin, TX 78756
 
 
 
Andy Pattillo
Term Expires 2028 
Beard Kultgen Brophy Bostwick Dickson PLLC
220 South Fourth Street
Waco, TX 76701
 
 
 
 
 
Pamela D. Orsak
Term Expires 2029
The Law Office of Pamela D. Orsak
306-B E. Airline Road
Victoria, TX 77901
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stephen A. Cooney
Term Expires 2029
Gray Reed & McGraw LLP
1300 post Oak Blvd., Suite 2000
Houston, TX 77056
 
 
 
 
 
 
Erny Simmons
Term Expires 2029
Glast Phillips Murray Zopolsky
14901 Quorum Drive, Suite 300
Dallas, TX 75254
  
 
 Audra Rod Smith
Term Expires 2029
Audra Rod Smith, PLLC
P.O. Box 1474
El Campo, TX 77437
 
   

Administration

Board Advisor
August Watkins Harris III
Moreland Properties
3404 Oakmont Boulevard
Austin, TX 78703
(512) 320-8808

Alternate Board Advisor
Noelle Hicks
 
State Bar Sections Dept.
State Bar of Texas Sections Department
PO Box 12487
Austin, Texas
78711-2487
Phone: 512-427-1420
Toll Free: 800-204-2222 x1420
Fax: 512-427-4105