Angela is Of Counsel in the firm’s Public Finance and Real Estate sections. She joined Coats Rose in 2007 and has been in the practice of law for over 17 years, including nearly ten years with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and its predecessor agency. She has been in private practice in Dallas since 2003 and is Board Certified in Administrative Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
While pursuing her law degree at the University of Virginia, Angela served as an Executive Editor of the Virginia Law Review.
Angela’s practice primarily focuses on the creation and representation of municipal utility districts and other special purpose districts. In addition to her representation of special purpose districts, she also represents land developers and landowners. She has extensive experience advising clients regarding environmental, permitting, ratemaking, and certificate of convenience and necessity issues and regularly provides representation in proceedings before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and other state agencies, as well as the Texas Legislature.
Rice University (B.A. summa cum laude, 1987)
University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1990)
Texas, 1990
District of Columbia, 1991
State Bar of Texas (Member, Administrative and Public Law and Environmental and Natural Resources Law Sections)
Order of the Coif
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