Debra Norris

Debra B. Norris is a Houston attorney with a practice focused on construction law at Debra B. Norris, P.C. Her clients include owners, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and design professionals. The State Bar of Texas lists her as a solo practitioner eligible to practice in Texas.

Norris worked as an electrical engineer before becoming a lawyer. At Arkla in Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1984 to 1989, she designed power and control systems for new compressor stations and automated existing natural gas compressor stations. Her next engineering position was at Nalco Chemical Company in Sugar Land, Texas, from 1990 to 1994. There, her projects included a wastewater treatment plant and controls for a hazardous waste incinerator.

Her legal work has also included intellectual property disputes. During her time at Dry & Tassin in Houston, from 2001 to 2002, her cases involved patents, copyright, Lanham Act claims and unfair competition. At Goldstein & Faucett from 2002 to 2003, she helped independent inventors and small companies license patents or pursue infringement litigation.

Norris holds a physics degree from Centenary College and an electrical engineering degree from Louisiana Tech University, both earned in 1984; her law degree followed at the University of Texas in 1998. She has taught construction law to graduate students at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering. Her teaching at the university also included construction law and ethics in the construction management program from 2005 to 2010, and legal aspects of surveying from 2006 to 2010.