Deborah Trejo is a partner in the firm's Environmental, Administrative and Public Law Department, focusing on representing political subdivisions, public institutions and private clients in environmental, water, open government, constitutional, administrative, commercial and litigation matters; in the trial and appellate prosecution and defense of environmental enforcement and agency actions; rulemaking; legislation; water, solid waste and air permitting; and negotiation and mediation in litigation.
Following clerkships with the law firm of Clifford Chance in London, the Texas Office of the Attorney General in Austin, and El Centro Legal Campesino in New Mexico, Ms. Trejo served as an attorney in the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic representing clients in state trial and appellate proceedings and before state and federal administrative agencies. She was part of a special Tulane delegation to Havana where she worked with members of Cuba’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and the Environment to translated Cuba’s Law No. 81 On the Environment. Beginning in 1998, Ms. Trejo worked on the Texas-Mexico border as an Assistant District Attorney for Cameron County, Texas, where she was involved in extensive litigation in state courts.
Ms. Trejo is the author of several publications on environmental and water law, including a chapter on groundwater conservation districts and subsidence districts in the State Bar of Texas’ Texas Law of Water Resources.
Ms. Trejo is the president of VCFS Texas, Inc. and was responsible for getting the Texas Legislature to pass the first legislation in the world to increase awareness of Velo-cardio-facial syndrome, the second most common genetic abnormality after Down syndrome. Ms. Trejo also serves on the advisory board of the Hill Country Alliance, and is a volunteer with the Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas and the Texas Parent to Parent Network. Ms. Trejo is a member of the Leadership Austin Essential Class of 2008.
