She was raised in El Paso, Texas and is the eldest of five children. She attended St. Joseph's grade school, Burgess High School and is a graduate of Loretto Academy (1984). After high school, she went to Barnard College/Columbia University in New York City where she obtained a degree in Latin American Studies (1988). During her college years, she also studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, México. After college, she returned to Texas where she earned a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law (1990). During law school, she clerked for the highest criminal court in Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals, under Justice Rusty Duncan.

After law school, Theresa moved to our nation's capitol where she worked for the United States Congress in the Capitol Hill Office of El Paso Congressman, Ronald Coleman (D). After a year in D.C., she moved to Taiwan where she taught English to Chinese children and adults. During her two years in Asia, she worked as well as traveled to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea.

In 1994, Theresa returned home to El Paso with a pocketful of experience and a couple of degrees and took a position with the DA's office where for three years she worked representing the State of Texas before the grand jury as well as juries in misdemeanors and felonies. Besides prosecuting numerous criminal jury trials, she was also assigned to the special Drug Task Force Unit where she was the attorney posted to do not only drug prosecutions but also civil property forfeitures. In that position, she went to court and moved for and obtained the forfeiture of thousands of dollars worth of property from the pockets of drug dealers which went into the coffers of the tax payer.

In 1998, Theresa opened up her own law office and has been in private practice ever since. Over the last eight and half years she has garnered a wide array of experience representing abused and neglected children, people accused of crimes, a plaintiff in a federal civil rights case, soldiers in Military Courts Martial, and employees before the civil service commission, amongst other cases. She has tried cases in Municipal Courts, Justice of the Peace Courts, County Courts, State District Courts, Federal Courts from here to Midland, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Military Courts as well as appeared on behalf of clients in front of City Council, the Public Service Board, and a State Board in Austin, Texas. She has tried cases all over West Texas. To this day, she has never lost a jury trial to the El Paso DA's Office.

Theresa sat on the County Committee that drafted the El Paso County Code of Ethics. She has been instrumental in bringing to light corruption in our community and has fought year after year for honest government and affordable taxes.

Now Theresa has decided to run for office and she is humbly asking for your help. She also wants to thank the many people who have already so generously come forward to support her. If elected, she promises to restore Justice through Reform to our DA's office so that we never again see another Brandon Moon case in our community (much more about this case later).

Theresa invites you to check her website regularly as she will be updating you on the issues in this campaign and how she plans to effect great change and make this a better place to live.