Patricia Hunt Holmes

Patricia Hunt Holmes spent 30 years as a public finance attorney with a large international law firm, specializing in nonprofit healthcare finance and rural electric cooperative finance. Consistently listed in Best Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers, and Top Lawyers in Houston, she was a frequent speaker at national public finance and health care conferences. Patricia has also served on the faculty of the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Tennessee, and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She has written and published in the fields of intellectual history and law.

In addition to her legal career, Patricia has been a member and board member of several social service organizations throughout Houston, including the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast Women’s Initiative, Dress for Success Houston, the University of Houston Women’s Studies Program, University of Houston Law Review Board of Directors, is a Trustee of the Houston Grand Opera, and Houston Justice for Our Neighbors.

Patricia grew up in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey but has lived in Houston for over 40 years. She has two daughters, Hillary and Ashley, who have successful careers as an attorney and a geologist, and three adorable grandsons. She is an avid golfer and traveler.

Patricia holds a BA in English and History, an MA in History, and a PhD in Russian and South Asian History with honors, all from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and was an editor on the Houston Law Review.

Patricia Hunt Holmes Publications:

“Tips for Men Who Still Don’t Get It”, Texas Lawyer, 2016

“The Lingerie Party”, Texas Lawyer, 2015

“Succeeding as a Professional--Getting Fired is Your Last Chance to Make a Good Impression”, with S. Sorenson and D. Kyle, Today’s CPA, May/June, 2013

“Leo Tolstoy’s Influence on Mahatma Gandhi”, in Experiments in Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, Yale University Press, 2012

“Even Employees are Self Employed: Success as a Professional Takes More than Technical Ability”, Houston Law Review, October 2012

“Representing Clients in Conduit and Not for Profit Public Finance Transactions”, opening chapter in in Public Finance Settlements and Negotiations, Aspatore Books, 2006

“Enforceability Opinions”, Texas State Bar Association Opinion Project, 2001

“Establishing Jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Inmunities Act of 1976,” Houston Law Review, July, 1982

Leo Tolstoy’s Theory of Non Violent Social and Political Revolution and His Influence on Mahatma Gandhi, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, 1978