ROCKWALL, TX (Aug. 13, 2025) Kenda Culpepper, Rockwall County Criminal District Attorney, has been elected as the 2025-2026 Chair of the Texas Bar Foundation.
The Texas Bar Foundation was founded in 1965 by attorneys dedicated to advancing justice and improving the legal profession. Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025, the Foundation is over 11,000 members strong and has awarded over $29 million in grants to nonprofit organizations across Texas that are engaged in justice-related initiatives. The 2025–2026 fiscal year will mark a record-breaking milestone as the Foundation plans to distribute more than $1.8 million to continue strengthening the justice system throughout the state.
Culpepper, elected as the Rockwall County Criminal District Attorney in 2008, was the first woman to take office as a District Attorney in the history of North Texas. She is a Vice President of the National District Attorneys Association, a past President of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association, and the Immediate Past Chair of the Texas Bar College.
“I am so incredibly honored to have been elected as Chair of this prestigious organization,” said Culpepper. “The Texas Bar Foundation includes many of the most renowned lawyers in the State who also have a heart for serving their communities, victims, and those who seek critical access to justice. I am so proud to serve in an organization that is making an enormous positive impact on my entire State.”
Culpepper has also served as the Chair of both the State Bar of Texas Criminal Justice Section and Professionalism Committee and just recently rolled off as a SBOT Board of Directors Section Representative. Locally, she is the co-founder of both the Rockwall County Children’s Advocacy Center and the North Texas Regional Veterans Court, the first of its kind in the nation. She also currently serves as the President of the Rockwall Noon Rotary Club.
Ms. Culpepper has been named by Texas Monthly as a “Texas Super Lawyer”; by D Magazine as one of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas; and by Forbes SkyRadio as one of “America’s Most Influential Women”. In 2015, she was part of the team of lawyers and investigators who won the statewide “Lone Star Award” for their work in the capital murder conviction of former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams, who killed the Kaufman County District Attorney, his wife and one of his assistant DA’s. In 2021, Culpepper was named by her state-wide peers as the “Texas Prosecutor of the Year”, and, in 2022, she was named by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research as one of “The Five Best Prosecutors in America”.
For more information about the Texas Bar Foundation, please visit www.txbf.org.
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