Best Adoption Lawyers in Austin
Ranked by how many adoption cases each attorney has actually handled in Travis County, from public court records — not by self-reported practice areas.
- Filings on file
- 371
- Ranked attorneys
- 137
- Most cases
- 17
- Years covered
- 2000–2026
Denise Cummings Hyde
01
Filings by year
Peak 2024 · 34 filings
02
Adoption attorneys
- 01Denise Cummings Hyde17cases
- 02Christine Henry Andresen9cases
- 03James W. Evans8cases
- 04Joan Patricia Peterson5cases
- 05Claude E. Ducloux5cases
- 06Patricia Lynne Brown4cases
- 07Mary Ann Palmer4cases
- 08William D. Powers4cases
- 09James R. Robbins4cases
- 10Stephen Van Winkle4cases
- 11John Timothy Whitten4cases
- 12Patrice J. Arnold3cases
- 13Ruben I Barrera3cases
- 14A. Richard Thormann3cases
- 15Travis L Turner3cases
- 16Jamie Leann Bryant Etzkorn3cases
- 17Nathan Lee Kennedy3cases
- 18Iris Agnes Albizu-Rivera3cases
- 19Haley Ranae Bullard3cases
- 20Suzanne Bryant2cases
- 21Ernest Craig Lusk2cases
- 22Lawrence Paul Schaubhut2cases
- 23Daryl Gail Weinman2cases
- 24Margaret E. Tucker2cases
- 25Jack W. Cunningham2cases
- 26Kelly Ausley-Flores2cases
- 27Christopher C. Merritt2cases
- 28Esteban (steve) R. Campos2cases
- 29Barbara Wade Dody2cases
- 30Kevin Dan Henderson2cases
- 31Robert P. Hoffman2cases
- 32David S. Lill2cases
- 33Tomi Rachel Matthews2cases
- 34Lawrence J. Morgan2cases
- 35Robert Frank Neal2cases
- 36Sharon Sanders2cases
- 37Robert Shane McFarland2cases
- 38Maria Cristina Erend Nelson2cases
- 39Carly Autumn Gallagher-Murray2cases
- 40Lisa Marie Danley2cases
- 41Jamie Matthew Kerr2cases
- 42Nadia Stewart2cases
- 43Collin White2cases
- 44Frank Nelson Brown1cases
- 45David Glickler1cases
- 46D'Ana H. Mikeska1cases
- 47Kenton Dee Johnson1cases
- 48Rhett Lane Hoestenbach1cases
- 49Chrystina Helena Sumpter1cases
- 50Jeffrey J. Barnett1cases
Also handling adoption matters in Travis County
- John Clayton Heal
- Brian Douglas Walters
- Bret Clyde Doyal
- Cherie A. Ballard
- Kathleen Ford Bay
- Douglas A. Bender
- Daniel C. Bitting
- Lisa Delong
- Gary W. Greif
- Charles O. Grigson
- Ronald Habitzreiter
- Kirt Harold Kiester
- Joe Edward Lea
- Barbara Jane Lipscomb
- Robert Bruce Luther
- Kevin Rindler Madison
- Vivian Mahlab
- Keith D. Maples
- Leslie L. McCollom
- Joseph M. Oswald
- Mark R. Paisley
- Debora Parks Pickens
- Marilyn Poole
- Robert E. Raesz
- Gary Matthew Reynolds
- Amie Rodnick
- Lawrence P. Schaubhut
- Michael C. Shulman
- Jody Wayne Sims
- Robert Ray Smith
- Franklin Scott Spears
- Mark D. Swanson
- David William Todd
- V Michael Toomey
- David M. Ward
- Will R. Wilson
- Joel Hugh Whitney
- Stephen M. Putonti
- Michael Anthony Guevara
- Joann Torrez
- Linda Lou Haston Frazer
- Doran Donald Peters
- Shannon Lynn Strong
- Milissa Christina Barrick
- Joshua Park Murray
- Catherine Victoria Funkhouser
- Amanda Rae Andrae
- Elizabeth A. Brenner
- Christopher Scott McHam
- Jesus Ramiro Lopez
- Tiffany Elizabeth Crouch Bartlett
- Tracy Lauren Kasparek
- Rosemary Flores-Andrade
- Mary Elizabeth Cozart Raxter
- Rosanna Lue Church Abreo
- Brandon Anthony Bledsoe
- Bradley Kyle Williamson
- May Yia Yang
- Alfonso Carlos Hernandez
- Vy Thuan Nguyen
- Stephen Michael Orsinger
- Brian Russell Cain
- Ian Edward Pittman
- Bryan Eric Eggleston
- Kacy L. Dudley
- Susan Leigh Jorgeson
- William Henry Russell
- Jason Wesley Wright
- Folashade Ogunbode Pfeifer
- Jessica Catherine Worden
- Matthew Charles Carneal
- Paige Marie Wendland Frankenberry
- Travis Joseph Phillips
- Ilana Rebecca Tanner
- Ryan Robert Bauerle
- Elizabeth Thomas Powdrill
- Amanda Kay Mjos Peters
- Patricio Garza Izaguirre
- Daniel Emilio Tyman
- Scott Anthony Thompson
- Jessica Cristina Farrar
- Joseph E. Lafleur
- Hubert Montoya
- Kaleen Joy Harris
- Kristin Day Weaver
- Emily Jane Ogden
- Susannah A. Stinson
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Case counts reflect adoption matters in Travis County public court records matched to each attorney's State Bar of Texas record. A higher count indicates more experience handling this case type in this county; it is not an endorsement or a measure of outcomes. Filing totals count each case once, so they are lower than the sum of the per-attorney counts above.