Sharla J. Fuller

Board Certified in Family Law,

Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Sharla Fuller has been selected one of the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas by her peers and has been listed as a Texas Super Lawyer featured in Texas Monthly magazine.

She is also a prolific author, having teamed with Koons Fuller managing partner Ike Vanden Eykel to write Lone Star Divorce, which was published in 2008.

She began her legal career in East Texas before joining Koons, Fuller, Vanden Eykel & Robertson in 2000. She worked for the law firm of Wynne & Wynne in her home town of Wills Point, handling family law litigation and counseling from 1994 through 2000, and serving as president of the Van Zandt County Bar Association.

Ms. Fuller was born November 7, 1967, graduated valedictorian of her high school class, earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington (1990, ranked first in her class), and attended graduate business courses at Southern Methodist University.

She received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law (1993), where she interned for Texas Supreme Court Justice Jack Hightower and was a research assistant for UT law professor Robert W. Hamilton.

She is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, the Family Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association, and the Texas Young Lawyers Association, and is admitted to practice before the U. S. District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas.  She has been elected to the Annette Stewart American Inn of Court and has served as an attorney coach or judge for the Region 10 Texas High School Mock Trial Competition since 1996. 

Ms. Fuller is married to firm partner Kevin R. Fuller and is the mother of their two sons, Cody and Casey.
 
She is also a frequent author and speaker on the following family law topics.

When the Texas SPO Won't Work:
Square Pegs in Round Holes
Advanced Family Law Course
 
Family Law: New Tools and Trends
Baylor Law School
General Practice Institute
 
Relocation: Current Issues, Including Jury Trials
University of Houston Law Foundation
Family Law Practice Seminar

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