Ms. Stephens was a briefing attorney for Justice Phylis Speedlin in the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio prior to entering private practice. She also previously interned for the Honorable Fred Biery, United States District Judge in the Western District of Texas. Ms. Stephens is a member of the San Antonio Bar Association, Bexar County Women’s Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, and Texas’s Defense Research Institute. She was named a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star by Texas Monthly magazine in 2007 and 2008 and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Ms. Stephens was the Symposium Editor of the St. Mary’s Law Journal from 2003-2004. She is married to Dan Stephens and is the mother of two young daughters.