Heather Sims

Heather Sims is President of the Young Lawyers of the Galveston County Bar Association. She is with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Galveston.

She earned her law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law, graduating magna cum laude and as a member of the Order of the Coif. She was lead articles editor of the SMU Law Review. She entered law school as a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar, one of five recipients of a full scholarship and stipend for academic achievement, civic duty, and leadership.

At Davidson College she received the J. Harris Proctor Award, given to the outstanding political science student of the senior class, and was inducted into Pi Delta Phi, the French national honor society. The University of Buckingham awarded her the Ondaatje Merit Scholarship for postgraduate study.