Background
Tripp, Karen Bryant was born on September 2, 1955 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Bryant and Katherine Rebecca (Watkins) Tripp.
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Karen Bryant Bryant Tripp
Edit ProfileEducation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bachelor of Arts, 1976). University of Alabama (Juris Doctor, 1981).
Career
Bar: Texas 1981, United States District Court (southern district) Texas 1982, United States District Court (eastern district) Texas 1991, United States Court Appeals (federal circuit) 1983,Supreme Court of the United States Court 1994. Law clerk Tucker, Gray & Espy, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1978-1981, to presiding justice Alabama Supreme Court, Montgomery, summer 1980. Attorney Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, 1981-1986, coordinator technical transfer, 1986-1987.
Associate Arnold, White and Durkee, Houston, 1988-1993,shareholder, 1994-1998. Shareholder Winstead, Sechrest & Minick Attys.at Law, Houston, 1998. President Blake Barnett & Company, 1996, private practice, 1998.
Membership
Member American Bar Association (intellectual property law section, ethics committee 1992-1995), Houston Bar Association (interprofessional relations committee 1988-1990), Houston Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (member outstanding inventor committee 1982-1984, chairman 1994-1995, chairman student education committee 1986, secretary 1987-1988, chairman awards committee 1988-1989, chairman program committee 1988-1991, 95-96, treasurer 1991-1992, board directors 1992-1994, 98, nominations committee 1993, 96), Texas Bar Association (antitrust law committee 1984-1985, chairman international law committee intellectual property law section 1987-1988, international transfer technical committee 1983-1984), Women's Finance Exchange (chair 1998-1999), American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (patent law committee 1995), Women in Technology (founder, creator, program planner, master of ceremonies 1st and 2nd intellectual property law conferences for women Corporate Counsel), Phi Alpha Delta.
Connections
Married Robert Mark Burleson, June 25, 1977 (divorced1997). 1 child, Hamilton Chase Barnett.
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Episcopalian -
Political Party
Democrat