Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

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1	1	H.R. No. 1318
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4	4	R E S O L U T I O N
5	5	WHEREAS, Diana Pérez Gomez is commencing her term as
6	6	2023-2024 president of the Houston Bar Association on May 11, 2023;
7	7	and
8	8	WHEREAS, The first Latina to lead the organization,
9	9	Mrs. Gomez was named to the board of directors in 2014; she has
10	10	served the HBA as chair of numerous committees, including the
11	11	judicial polls and employment and personnel committees; in
12	12	addition, she has held many other leadership roles, including
13	13	co-chair of District 4 of the Texas Bar Foundation and president of
14	14	the Hispanic Bar Association of Houston, and board member for the
15	15	Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston; and
16	16	WHEREAS, Mrs. Gomez is a shareholder in the Houston office of
17	17	the Chamberlain Hrdlicka firm and serves on its board of directors;
18	18	moreover, she is the national co-chair for the labor and employment
19	19	practice and both the pro bono and women in the law committees;
20	20	highly experienced in civil litigation in both state and federal
21	21	courts, she focuses on complex labor and employment disputes; her
22	22	career also includes government service for the City of Houston,
23	23	Harris County, and, by presidential appointment, the U.S.
24	24	Department of Education; she holds a bachelor's degree in political
25	25	science from Texas A&M University and a law degree from The
26	26	University of Texas at Austin; and
27	27	WHEREAS, The recipient of myriad accolades, Mrs. Gomez has
28	28	won two President's Awards from the HBA and four President's Awards
29	29	from HisBA, and she is a life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation,
30	30	Texas Bar Foundation, and Houston Bar Foundation; every year since
31	31	2013, she has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list; she has
32	32	received multiple Top Lawyer honors from Houstonia magazine, and
33	33	she was listed among Houston Business Journal's 2022 Women Who Mean
34	34	Business and Houston Woman Magazine's Houston's 50 Most Influential
35	35	Women of 2020-2021; recently, she and her husband, Judge Michael
36	36	Gomez, were featured in the "Profile in Professionalism: Law in the
37	37	Family" series by HBA's Houston Lawyer magazine for their
38	38	dedication to the bar and to the wider community; and
39	39	WHEREAS, Diana Gomez has greatly benefited the Houston Bar
40	40	Association through her skill and commitment to excellence, and her
41	41	new role as the organization's 153rd president will allow her to
42	42	make an even greater positive impact in her profession; now,
43	43	therefore, be it
44	44	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas
45	45	Legislature hereby congratulate Diana Pérez Gomez on beginning her
46	46	term as 2023-2024 president of the Houston Bar Association and
47	47	extend to her sincere best wishes for a successful tenure; and, be
48	48	it further
49	49	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
50	50	prepared for Mrs. Gomez as an expression of high regard by the Texas
51	51	House of Representatives.
52	52	Hernandez
53	53	______________________________
54	54	Speaker of the House
55	55	I certify that H.R. No. 1318 was adopted by the House on May
56	56	12, 2023, by a non-record vote.
57	57	______________________________
58	58	Chief Clerk of the House