About/Bio - Nissa Dunn

Certifications and Admissions

• Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization
• All Texas State Courts
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Federal Circuit
• United States District Courts: 
  • Western District of Texas
  • Southern District of Texas
  • Eastern District of Texas
  • Northern District of Texas

Education

Baylor University School Of Law, Waco, Texas, Juris Doctor, 1986

Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, 1983 

Honors and Awards/Community Service

• Belva Lockwood Outstanding Lawyer Award, Bexar County Women’s Bar Association – 2007
• Texas Super Lawyer – Texas Monthly 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008
• Chair, Host Committee, Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference – 2007
• Director, San Antonio Chapter of the Federal Bar Association – 2006 - 2007
• Trustee, San Antonio Bar Foundation – 2006 - present
  
• Vice-President, Bexar County Women’s Bar Association – 2005
  
• Director, Bexar County Women’s Bar Association – 2002 - 2004, 2006
• Director, San Antonio Bar Association – 2002 - 2004
• Chair, San Antonio Bar Association Law Day Committee – 2002

Previous Experience

Shareholder, Crofts & Callaway, P.C. - January 2003 to March 2007
Associate Attorney, Crofts & Callaway, P.C. - January 1999 to December 2002

Briefing Attorney for the Honorable Nancy Stein Nowak, United States Magistrate Judge, Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division - October 1993 to December 1999

Assistant District Attorney, Civil Section, Bexar County Criminal District Attorney's Office - April 1992 to October 1993

Associate Attorney, Appellate Section, Brock & Person, P.C., San Antonio, Texas - September 1987 to March 1992

Briefing Attorney for the Honorable John E. Powers, Justice, Court of Appeals, Third Court of Appeals District, Austin, Texas - September 1986 to August 1987