Movers and Shakers • September 2024

CENTRAL

AMANDA GODLEWSKI founded and is now managing partner in Godlewski Law in Seguin.

HEATHER JONES HOLMES is now senior counsel to Enoch Kever in Austin.

NIKKI H. GIBSON is now a member in and CHARLES RICE is now an associate of Dickinson Wright in Austin.

ANGIE CARERRA is now of counsel to Botkin Chairello Calaf in Austin.

GULF

TONY NGUYEN is now a principal in Fish & Richardson in Houston.

KELLY CONKLIN, MELISSA N. STERNFELS, and CHRISTIN G. PETTY established Conklin Sternfels Petty at 901 Heights Blvd., Houston 77008.

SUSAN HERBST SOTO is now a staff attorney with Houston Volunteer Lawyers in Houston.

DIRK MOORE is now a shareholder in and CHARLES “DANNY” BROOKS is now an attorney with Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta in Houston.

JOSEPH A. GARNETT, RAYMOND A. NEUER, ROBERT E. PERKINS, JAMIE GUIDRY, and JAMES L. WARE, all of Spencer Fane in Houston, joined the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group.

PHYLLIS A. GUILLORY is now a partner in Womble Bond Dickinson in Houston.

BENNY AGOSTO JR., of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner in Houston, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Bar of Texas Hispanic Issues Section.

LAUREN BLACK is now a partner in Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Houston.

JILLIAN PERRY is now an associate of Weinstein Tippetts & Little in Houston.

CRAWFORD MOOREFIELD is now senior tax counsel to Crady Jewett McCulley & Houren in Houston.

EMERY GULLICKSON RICHARDS is now of counsel to Cabello Hall Zinda Law in Houston.

NORTH

GREG JACKSON is now a trial and litigation attorney with the Law Firm of Roger “Rocky” Walton in Arlington.

ANNA RICHARDSON is now an attorney with Iacuone McAllister Potter in Dallas.

STEPHANIE GAUSE CULPEPPER is now senior managing director of and general counsel to Lument in Dallas.

SPENCER C. DIEBEL is now a partner in Bell Nunnally & Martin in Dallas.

TAYLOR M. MOHR founded and is now managing partner in Mohr Law Group in Frisco.

STEPHANIE K. OSTEEN is now a partner in Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth in Dallas. CHRISTIAN S. KELSO, of the firm’s Dallas office, was elected a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

RUSTY TUCKER is now a senior attorney with Kane Russell Coleman Logan in Dallas.

TREY COX is now global co-chair of litigation at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dallas.

EKATERINA G. LONG, WYNDHAM A. HUBBARD, MATTHEW T. LOEFFELHOLZ, KYLE KERTZ, and ALDEN BURKE are now attorneys with Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta in Dallas.

CARLY DUVALL LE RICHE is now general counsel to and head of legal for Cariloop in Dallas.

GARY L. NICKELSON, of Goranson Bain Ausley in Fort Worth, recieved of the 2024 Dan Rugeley Price Memorial Award from the Texas Bar Foundation.

ZAK D. MARTINEZ and MARVIN H. MORRIS are now attorneys with Bracket & Ellis in Fort Worth.

PATRICIA BURNS is now an associate judge of Probate Court No. 2 in Fort Worth.

TOM JACKS is now managing partner in and TREVOR BROWN, J. DAVID HENDERSON, REID HUDGINS, PRYCE
TUCKER, and RASHA ZEYADEH are now partners in Schouest, Bamdas, Soshea, BenMaier & Eastham’s new office at 5956 Sherry Ln., 20th fl., Dallas 75225.

RONNIE L. JOHNSON is now a partner in Holland & Knight in Dallas.

WEST

CARLOS EDUARDO CÁRDENAS, of the Law Office of Carlos Eduardo Cárdenas in El Paso, received the State Bar of Texas Hispanic Issues Section’s 2024 Reynaldo G. Garza Lifetime Achievement Award.

ZACHARY D. LONG established the Law Offices of Zachary D. Long at 3223 S. Loop 289, Ste. 230, Lubbock 79423.

OUT OF STATE

TRACY GOSTYLA is now senior counsel to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of International Affairs.

H. VINCENT DRAA III, of Kochhar & Co. in Chicago, was elected chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s International and Immigration Law Council Section. He was also appointed to a three-year term on the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Peer Review Panel in London.