Camisha L. Simmons

Camisha L. Simmons is the founder and managing member and principal of Simmons Legal PLLC in Dallas, which she founded after practicing in New York and Dallas for nearly eight years as an attorney with several large global law firms She has experience representing for-profit companies, nonprofit companies and political subdivisions in, among other legal matters, bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, creditors’ rights, business transactions and litigation. Ms. Simmons is listed in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law. She also was selected by The National Black Lawyers, a professional and educational organization comprised of an elite group of highly successful and influential African American lawyers in the U.S., for inclusion in its list of the top 100 African American attorneys in Texas, The National Black Lawyers Top 100 (2019-22). In 2018, Ms. Simmons was recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Dallas by the Texas Diversity Council, and in 2013, Texas Lawyer named her to its inaugural list of Legal Leaders on the Rise, which honors Texas’s 25 most promising lawyers under the age of 40 whose accomplishments distinguish them from their peers. In addition, she has been named a Texas Super Lawyer, Texas Rising Star, New York Metro Super Lawyer and New York Metro Rising Star by Super Lawyers, and as a Top 40 Under 40 attorney by National Black Lawyers. After graduating from law school, Ms. Simmons clerked for Hon. Mary F. Walrath in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Prior to her legal career, she served on active duty in the U.S. Army from 1999-2003. Ms. Simmons received her B.B.A. from Campbell University, her M.Ed. from the University of Maryland, College Park and her M.B.A. and J.D. magna cum laude from Texas Tech University.