Clay B. Steadman

Is a partner in the Law Offices of Jesko & Steadman, in Kerrville, Texas. He has had a general law practice with his wife, Elizabeth, in Kerrville since 1995. His primary focus is litigation, with an emphasis on criminal defense.

As an active member of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association since 1995, he served on TCDLA’s Board of Directors from 2009 – 2015. Currently, he is a co-chair of the TCDLA Rural Practice Committee, and is a member of the Criminal Defense Lawyers Project Committee. Clay is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Educational Institute, and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of TCDLEI. He is a TCDLEI Super Fellow. Clay was appointed to serve on the faculty of the 41st Annual Texas Criminal Trial College for 2017.

As a charter member of the Hill Country Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, he has served on the Board of Directors since 2013. He is member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National Child Abuse Defense & Resource Center. Clay is also a member of the Kerr County Bar Association, and has been since 1995. In the past, within the Kerr County Bar Association, he has served in various leadership roles as President and Secretary. He is also a member of The College of the State Bar of Texas, and a member of the Texas State Bar Computer and Technology, Construction Law, and Consumer and Commercial Law Sections.

An active speaker, he has presented and spoken at over 20 continuing legal education seminars, served as course director, and authored numerous articles on various criminal defense legal topics.

Participating and being active in many local organizations throughout Kerrville and the surrounding area remains an important part of Clay’s fabric as a general law practitioner, in what is a predominately rural area. He remains actively involved with the Kerrville Tivy High School Mock Trial Team, and has been an attorney advisor with the team since 2001. In 2005, as an attorney advisor, the Kerrville Tivy High School Mock Trial Team won the Texas High School Mock Trial Competition, and competed in the National High School Mock Trial Competition in Charlotte, North Carolina. Locally, Clay has also served on the board of directors for the Hill Country Crisis Council, the Norman Turner Rehab House and the Riverhill Country Club.

Clay received his B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989, and his J.D. from St. Mary’s Law School in 1992.