Kathy Ehmann-Clardy, Fort Worth Criminal Attorney

Kathy Lynn Ehmann-Clardy is a criminal defense attorney in the Fort Worth office of Dunham & Jones and has practiced law for over 20 years. She defends people in Tarrant County against DWI, assault family violence, sexual assault, and other misdemeanors and felonies. Since 2010 she has tried six to twelve cases a year, first chair in all but a handful of felony trials, and she handles voir dire herself.

She began at the Law Offices of Manuel Solis, a multi-state firm, in its Dallas office from 2006 to 2010, handling hundreds of immigration cases plus family law, criminal, and bankruptcy matters. She came to Dunham & Jones in late 2010 and has carried a steady Tarrant County docket since. That immigration background matters when a charge carries immigration consequences.

Her Bachelor of Arts in psychology comes from the University of North Texas, and her Juris Doctor from Texas Wesleyan School of Law, now Texas A&M University School of Law, where she worked in the legal clinic and led the ACLU and WLSA student chapters. The Northern District of Texas admitted her in 2006.

Ms. Ehmann-Clardy does this work for people who made one bad decision and landed in the criminal justice system. As she puts it, she is naturally bellicose and likes to fight and argue with prosecutors.

An Air Force brat born on a base in Puerto Rico, she moved every two years until her father’s last posting brought the family to Texas. She reads mystery novels, visits her oldest son in Prague, serves as State Director of the Pan American Round Tables of Texas, and is president of the Ballet Frontier board in Fort Worth.

Kathy Lynn Ehmann-Clardy, Attorney at Law