Education
Camille Morris Tankersley received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law in December of 1997. During law school, Camille was Mid-Law Senator for the Student Bar Association, Vice President of the Texas Exes at South Texas, and a member of Who’s Who in American Law Schools. She also completed over 100 hours as a mediator on Justice of the Peace Court cases and Family Law cases for the South Texas College of Law mediation clinic.Professional History
Camille began her law career in 1997 working for a small plaintiffs’ personal injury firm in Houston, Texas. In 1998 she moved to Austin, Texas to work for the litigation division of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). While practicing for the TCEQ in environmental law she broke the agency record for filing the most enforcement petitions with the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH), and had a 100% success rate on her cases at trial. She also worked with the Office of the Attorney General to recover a money judgment on the largest gasoline spill in Texas history. Post litigation division, Camille took on the role as TCEQ mediator where she mediated the historic settlement agreement between the Texas cities of Henrietta and Wichita Falls, ending a fifteen year dispute between the two over water rights. Camille returned to Houston in 2001 and worked for an insurance defense firm on personal injury cases, and later for a mortgage creditor firm where she gained federal practice experience from representing large mortgage company clients in over 1,800 Texas bankruptcy cases. In 2003 Camille joined the firm of Christian, Smith and Jewell, LLC, where she concentrated her practice on commercial disputes, breach of contract, personal injuries, wrongful death, real estate, and general civil litigation. Over six years, she negotiated financial settlements for her clients totaling almost ten million dollars.In 2009, Camille become of counsel to the Fryar Law Firm, and later joined them as a Member in 2010 where she specialized in commercial landlord tenant disputes, shareholder oppression cases, and general commercial litigation.
In 2011, Camille opened her own firm specializing in civil litigation. She is honored to be appointed by Harris County District Courts as a guardian ad litem for minors and as an attorney ad litem for missing heirs in property tax cases.