(July 11, 1969 - )

Lisa M. Tatum
State Bar President, 2013-2014

Lisa Tatum is a member of The HistoryMakers and the Iconic Women in Legal History. She is the first African American to serve as president of the State Bar of Texas.

Tatum is the founder and owner of LM Tatum, PLLC, established in San Antonio in 2011. Her firm focuses on public, private, and nonprofit business; employment law; and independent investigations and mediation. The firm also serves in the capacity of underwriter’s counsel and co-bond counsel, providing legal services related to financial transactions, and is listed in The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace (The Red Book) as co-bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel. Tatum also works with clients on simple estate and contingency planning. 

A former Bexar County assistant criminal district attorney, Tatum is admitted to practice law before all courts of the state of Texas, the U.S. District Court of the Western District, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. She has served on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Budget Committee, and Audit & Finance Committee, among others. Tatum has served as co-chair and chair of the Discipline and Client Attorney Assistance Program Committee, and she has served as vice chair of the Commission for Lawyer Discipline. She has been awarded a State Bar Presidential Citation and an Outstanding Third-Year Director Award. Tatum is a past president and former director of the San Antonio Black Lawyers Association; past chair, former vice chair, and member of the African American Lawyers Section of the State Bar; and a member of the Bexar County Women’s Bar Association, where she received the Bexar County Women’s Bar Association Belva Lockwood Award. She received a B.A. in government from Smith College and a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, where she was inducted as a national member of the Order of Barristers. Tatum grew up in San Antonio and is a Rotarian and active in local chambers. She enjoys service and loves being a lawyer.