Speaker Teana Watson

Date – Time

August 21, 2024 – 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM

Location

Sugar Creek Country Club
420 Sugar Creek Blvd
Sugar Land, TX 77478 US

Additional Information

Teana Watson is a native Houstonian and a proud graduate of Jesse H. Jones High School Vanguard Program.  After high school, Watson studied as a Sloan Fellow at Princeton University and graduated with honors from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1986.   After interning at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, she graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in Syracuse, New York.  Watson returned home to Texas and commenced her legal career in the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office in 1991.  She was later promoted to Chief Prosecutor of the Juvenile Division.   
In 1996, Watson opened her law practice, representing clients in criminal and civil matters in State and Federal Courts.  Additionally, she was general counsel to the Fort Bend and North Forest Federation of Teachers Union and served part–time as a municipal judge for the city of Stafford.   In January 2014, Teana Watson founded T.V. Watson Law PLLC, a full-service law firm with a combined 70 years of legal experience.  The firm concentrated on civil, family, and criminal law matters.   
 In 2018, Teana Watson was elected Judge of the County Court at Law #5 in Fort Bend County.  She has served as chair of the Fort Bend County Juvenile Board, and the directors of juvenile justice in the county. Currently, she is the administrative judge of the county courts at law and the presiding judge over the Fort Bend County Misdemeanor Treatment Court Program. This program provides misdemeanor substance use offenders an opportunity to resolve their cases with a dismissal and expunction.   Judge Watson has been appointed as of one of two judges to serves on the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) Advisory Council.  The 13-member Advisory Council on Juvenile Services assists TJJD with long-range planning and review of operations.
Judge Watson has presented papers and lectured for the State Bar of Texas, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association as well as other legal education organizations. In her spare time, she enjoys participating in community service programs, working with her sorority Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.  participating in charitable fun runs and leisure reading.  Judge Watson is a lifetime member of the NAACP and the proud mother of two grown sons, Ricardo Watson Jr., a graduate of Hampton University, in Virginia and Cordell Watson a graduate of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.