Erica Graham is a native Houstonian, and a graduate of Lamar High School in HISD. She earned her bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University and graduated cum laude from Tulane Law School in 1997. While in law school, she interned for the Honorable Calvin Botley, a Federal Magistrate Judge here in Houston, and clerked for Shell Oil Company, Exxon and Fulbright & Jaworski. She was selected for and participated on the National Moot Court Trial Team at Tulane.

As a civil litigator in Houston for the past 12 years, Erica has worked for two nationally recognized law firms – Fulbright & Jaworski and Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman - and as counsel for Chevron. She has represented clients in both state and federal courts in Texas in litigation involving toxic tort and environmental law, employment law, personal injury law, oil and gas law and general commercial litigation. She has been recognized for doing high quality work preparing cases for trial, identifying settlement possibilities, benefiting client organizations, considering cost implications, and explaining complex legal options and technical issues to opposing counsel and clients. Erica also has a proven track record of collaborating and working productively with managers, clients, judges, opposing counsels, other attorneys, legal staff and juries.

Erica is the mother of a five year old son, and is an active member of The Church Without Walls in Houston, where she participates in the music ministry and a mentoring ministry for teenage girls. She is also an active member of the Houston Bar Association and The Downtown Group, and volunteers for organizations committed to improving her community. Her volunteer activities include helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity, working for several of DePelchin’s annual toy drives, sponsoring children through the Houston Bar Association’s Adopt an Angel program, and doing pro bono legal work for the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Association and Lone Star Legal Aid.