Becky Gregory brings a wealth of experience to Curran Tomko Tarski LLP. Before joining the firm, she was appointed by the Governor as Judge of the 283rd Judicial District Court for the State of Texas where she presided over felony-level offenses. Prior to that, she was First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas. As the second-in-command of a large federal judicial district, she supervised fifty federal prosecutors and thousands of federal cases. Prior to her service in the Eastern District, Becky was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Texas.
As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for 20 years, she acquired significant experience in appellate practice, as well as in civil, and criminal litigation. She represented most of the major federal agencies in court. Her broad-ranging civil experience includes medical malpractice, employment discrimination, civil rights, and torts. Her criminal experience includes prosecuting hundreds of crimes such as money laundering, RICO, mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and immigration violations. She was selected for a special assignment in Washington D.C., where she worked on terrorism investigations and frequently appeared before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Becky’s work has been recognized with numerous Department of Justice awards and the U.S. State Department’s Special Agent Award. She was also selected as an Excellence in Government Fellow.
Becky served on the Executive Board of the North Texas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Association (HIDTA); the Steering Committee of the North Texas Electronic Crimes Task Force, where she co-authored the Mission Statement; and as a member of the FBI InfraGard Association.
Becky also served on the staff of two state appellate courts and in the Appellate Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She has written innumerable appellate briefs and has argued before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Outside of her legal practice, Becky has been a Visiting Associate Professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law where she taught courses in Evidence; Federal Criminal Trial Practice; Directed the Trial Advocacy Program; and supervised in the Civil Clinic which offers representation to indigent clients. She was also an instructor at the National Advocacy Center.
Education · B.A., University of Dallas, cum laude
· J.D., St. Mary's University School of Law
Memberships
· State Bar of Texas
· Member of Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee
· Dallas Bar Association · Executive Women of Dallas · North Texas Crime Commission
· Appointed to the National and Regional Governance Boards of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Information Network Critical Infrastructure
Publications
The Right of Succession, The Texas Prosecutor, Vol.__, No.__ (pending publication March/April 2007)
The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Life After Booker: A New Era in Federal Sentencing or A Return to the Old?
Texas Bar Journal, Vol. 68, No. 9 (Fall 2005)
The Lawyers’ Role: Will Uncle Sam Want You in the Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorism? University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Fall 2003)
Random Stops of Commercial Vehicles—The Only Way to Go, CASE NOTE: United States v. Alvester Fort
Law and Business Review of the Americas, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Summer 2001)
