Jason A. Powell
About
A native of the Rio Grande Valley and Sharyland, Texas, Jason received his B.A. from the University of Texas Pan American, magna cum laude, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honors fraternity, the Student Affairs Advisory Committee, and a twice elected Senator in the Student Government Association.
Upon graduation, Jason headed west to the San Francisco Bay Area and worked for a start-up company in Silicon Valley as a Senior Sales and Marketing Director, with a primarily focus on Fortune 500 corporations. He later returned to Texas to attend the University of Texas Law School in Austin. While there, Jason received the Judge Robert M. Parker Endowed Presidential Scholarship, and he has solely practiced defense litigation in the Rio Grande Valley since graduating.
Born: February, 1977 in McAllen, Texas
Education
- The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas,
- B.A. Speech Communication, 1999
- The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
- J.D., 2005
Memberships
- State Bar of Texas
- Hidalgo County Bar Association
- Hidalgo County Young Lawyers Association
- Defense Research Institute
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas