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