Jennifer Richie

Jennifer Richie is a Senior Attorney with the firm.

Prior to joining the firm, she served as the Waco City Attorney for 12 years. With over 24 years of municipal legal experience, Richie also was a senior assistant city attorney for the City of Irving, Texas, and an executive assistant city attorney for the City of Dallas, Texas. She also has practiced law at a large, private law firm in Dallas and clerked for the Hon. F.A. Little, Jr., U.S. District Court, W.D. Louisiana.

In 2008 Richie was named a “Rising Star” in the Texas Super Lawyer’s issue of Texas Monthly magazine. She is president of the Texas City Attorney’s Association. From 2015 until 2024, she chaired the Atmos Cities Steering Committee, a coalition of 165 cities served by Atmos Energy Mid-Tex Division.

Richie serves on the board of the Waco Symphony Council and is a member of the Waco Rotary Club.

She graduated magna cum laude from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College with honors in Art History and from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, where she was managing editor of the Louisiana Law Review. Richie is licensed to practice law in Texas and Louisiana and is admitted to practice law in the United States District Courts in the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas.

• Louisiana State University
• Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, B.A., Magna Cum Laude

• Licensed to practice law in Texas and Louisiana
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas

• President, Texas City Attorney’s Association
• Atmos Cities Steering Committee
• Member, Waco Rotary Club
• Waco Symphony Council