DBA Board Elects Chair and Vice Chair

At its January Organizational Meeting, the Dallas Bar Association Board of Directors elected Sarah Rogers Chair of the Board and Stephanie Gause Culpepper Vice-Chair of the Board for 2023.

Ms. Rogers is a graduate of SMU Dedman School of Law. She is an experienced litigation attorney at Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP, where her practice focuses on dram shop, automobile/trucking accidents, premises liability, and products liability cases. She is an active leader in the local community, having served as the President of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers in 2013 and as the Secretary of the Texas Young Lawyers Association in 2011. Most recently, she served as the Dallas Women Lawyers Association’s President in 2019, and currently serves as a member of Attorneys Serving the Community. She is the Board Advisor to the Bylaws Committee and the Mergers & Acquisitions Section.

Ms. Culpepper is a graduate of The University of Texas School of Law. She serves as the Senior Director, Senior Managing Counsel at Lument. She has been on the DBA Board of Directors for eight years and is a past president of both the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers and the Dallas Women Lawyers Association. In addition, she is Secretary of the Dallas Women Lawyers Association Foundation, Chair of the Dallas Bar Foundation Fellows, and is a board member of the Texas General Counsel Forum She is the Board Advisor to the Summer Law Intern Program Committee and the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Law Section.

The Board appointed Justice Erin Nowell, of the Fifth District Court of Appeals, to serve a judicial at-large position. A graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of Texas School of Law, Justice Nowell is Board Advisor to the Bench Bar Conference Committee and the Appellate Law Section.

Filling a one-year At-Large Direc-tor position is Hilda Galvan, of Jones Day Ms. Galvan is a graduate of The University of Texas Law School and is a nationally recognized trial law-yer who has represented technology companies in intellectual property litigation in courts across the country for more than 25 years. She is Board

Advisor to the Pro Bono Activities Committee and Business Litigation Section.

Derek Mergele-Rust , Founding Partner of DebnamRust, was appointed as an At-Large Director and will serve a two-year term. He is a graduate of Texas Tech School of Law and is currently Board Advisor to the Texas High School Mock Trial Committee and Securities Section.

The 2023 board also includes: President Cheryl Camin Murray ; President- Bill Mateja ; First Vice President Vicki Blanton ; Second Vice President Jonathan Childers ; SecretaryTreasurer Kandace Walter ; Immediate Past President Krisi Kastl ; Directors Katie Anderson , Alison Ashmore , Chad Baruch , Lauren Black , Callie Butcher , Rob Cañas , Stephanie Culpepper , Rocio Garcia Espinoza , Carla Verena Green , Amber Hamilton

Gregg , Hon. Martin Hoffman , Nicole

Mu ñ oz Huschka , Andy Jones , Jennifer King , Hon. Audrey Moorehead , Timothy Newman , Janet Landry Smith , and Drew Spaniol ; ABA Delegates Rhonda Hunter and Mark Sales ; and State Bar Directors: Chad Baruch , Mary Scott , Paul Stafford , Aaron Tobin , and Robert Tobey HN