H.R. No. 1318
 
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
         WHEREAS, Diana Pérez Gomez is commencing her term as
  2023-2024 president of the Houston Bar Association on May 11, 2023;
  and
         WHEREAS, The first Latina to lead the organization,
  Mrs. Gomez was named to the board of directors in 2014; she has
  served the HBA as chair of numerous committees, including the
  judicial polls and employment and personnel committees; in
  addition, she has held many other leadership roles, including
  co-chair of District 4 of the Texas Bar Foundation and president of
  the Hispanic Bar Association of Houston, and board member for the
  Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston; and
         WHEREAS, Mrs. Gomez is a shareholder in the Houston office of
  the Chamberlain Hrdlicka firm and serves on its board of directors;
  moreover, she is the national co-chair for the labor and employment
  practice and both the pro bono and women in the law committees;
  highly experienced in civil litigation in both state and federal
  courts, she focuses on complex labor and employment disputes; her
  career also includes government service for the City of Houston,
  Harris County, and, by presidential appointment, the U.S.
  Department of Education; she holds a bachelor's degree in political
  science from Texas A&M University and a law degree from The
  University of Texas at Austin; and
         WHEREAS, The recipient of myriad accolades, Mrs. Gomez has
  won two President's Awards from the HBA and four President's Awards
  from HisBA, and she is a life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation,
  Texas Bar Foundation, and Houston Bar Foundation; every year since
  2013, she has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list; she has
  received multiple Top Lawyer honors from Houstonia magazine, and
  she was listed among Houston Business Journal's 2022 Women Who Mean
  Business and Houston Woman Magazine's Houston's 50 Most Influential
  Women of 2020-2021; recently, she and her husband, Judge Michael
  Gomez, were featured in the "Profile in Professionalism: Law in the
  Family" series by HBA's Houston Lawyer magazine for their
  dedication to the bar and to the wider community; and
         WHEREAS, Diana Gomez has greatly benefited the Houston Bar
  Association through her skill and commitment to excellence, and her
  new role as the organization's 153rd president will allow her to
  make an even greater positive impact in her profession; now,
  therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas
  Legislature hereby congratulate Diana Pérez Gomez on beginning her
  term as 2023-2024 president of the Houston Bar Association and
  extend to her sincere best wishes for a successful tenure; and, be
  it further
         RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
  prepared for Mrs. Gomez as an expression of high regard by the Texas
  House of Representatives.
 
  Hernandez
 
  ______________________________
  Speaker of the House     
 
         I certify that H.R. No. 1318 was adopted by the House on May
  12, 2023, by a non-record vote.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House