Former Austin Bar President Selected as Chair-Elect of State Bar Board of Directors

Former Austin Bar President Kennon Wooten was selected as chairelect of the State Bar of Texas board of directors during the board’s quarterly meeting on April 28 in Waco.

Wooten, a partner at Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP in Austin, will take office in June and will serve as chair until June 2024.

Wooten served as the Austin Bar’s president for 2019-20 and the chair of the Austin Bar Foundation for 2020-21. She also currently serves on Austin Bar’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. Wooten was editor of Austin Lawyer between 2013 and 2017, and was the Austin Young Lawyers Association’s president for 2012-13.

In 2021, Wooten was elected to represent District 9, Place 3 (Travis County) on the State Bar’s board of directors.

In 2022, she won the Austin Bar’s Joseph C. Parker Jr. Diversity Award. In 2017, she won the Austin Bar President’s Award of Merit. In 2015, she won the Austin Bar’s Outstanding Director Award.

Additionally, in 2011, she won the AYLA President’s Award of Merit and, in 2009, AYLA’s Outstanding Director Award.

For 2008 and 2009, and from 2013 to 2017, Wooten was named a Texas Rising Star by Thomson Reuters, and from 2019 to 2022 she was rated a Texas Super Lawyer in general litigation.

In 2021, she received the President’s Page Award from the National Conference of Bar Presidents. She has participated in the State Bar’s Pro Bono College in 2007, 2015, and 2018-20.

From 2020 to 2022, she was rated as one of Austin’s top attorneys in civil litigation by Austin Monthly

In 2018, she received the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association’s Litigation/ Appellate Attorney Award.

In 2017, she received the Standing Ovation Volunteer Award from the State Bar.

Previously, Wooten has served as a member of the Texas Commission to Expand Civil Legal Services; a member of the Supreme Court of Texas Task Force for Rules in Expedited Actions; the chair of the State Bar’s Court Rules Committee; a board member for Texas Folklife and Austin Friends of Traditional Music; and a board member and secretary for the Texas Legal Services Center.

She currently serves as a member of the American Law Institute, the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee, the editorial board for The Advocate, the Supreme Court of Texas Remote Proceedings Task Force, and the Texas Access to Justice Commission.

Wooten joined Scott Douglass & McConnico in 2011 after working as the rules attorney for the Supreme Court of Texas, an associate at Baker Botts LLP, and a law clerk to former Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Wooten’s law practice focuses on general civil litigation and complex commercial litigation. She also periodically handles appeals and advises clients on rule-related matters, including ethical obligations.

She earned her J.D. at The University of Texas School of Law in 2004.