Biography
Lexie Ford practices immigration law exclusively. She has experience with family and humanitarian-based immigration, including criminal analysis, appeals, and deportation defense. Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Ford was a law clerk in Chavez and Valko’s Fort Worth office beginning the May following her second year of law school. Prior to joining Chavez and Valko, Ms. Ford interned for two additional immigration law firms in DFW. She also spent a year in the Immigrant Right’s Clinic at Texas A&M.
Ms. Ford obtained her Juris Doctorate from Texas A&M University School of Law, where she graduated with highest honors and second in her class. While in law school, Ms. Ford was a member of the Law Review, and her article, A Reasonable Possibility of Refoulement: The Inadequacies of Procedures to Protect Vulnerable Noncitizens from Return to Persecution, Torture, or Death, was published in 2021. She was a member of the Immigration Law Initiative and was a research assistant for Professors Huyen Pham and Nancy Welsh. Ms. Ford also holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Texas A&M University.
Ms. Ford is proficient in Spanish. She was born and raised in Garland, Texas and currently lives in Arlington, Texas with her partner and their husky.
Education
- Texas A&M University School of Law (formerly Texas Wesleyan University School of Law),
- Fort Worth, Texas, 2022
- Juris Doctorate
- Honors: summa cum laude
- Texas A&M University, College Station,
- Texas, 2019
- Bachelor of Science in Economics
- Honors: summa cum laude
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of Texas, 2022
Professional Associations
- American Immigration Lawyers Association, Present
- Dallas Bar Association
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Published Works
- Lexie M. Ford, A Reasonable Possibility of Refoulement: The Inadequacies of Procedures to Protect Vulnerable Noncitizens from Return to Persecution, Torture, or Death, 9 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 209 (2021).