06-F Tax Proposal - Linebarger - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Ch /I-4 City ofParis Proposal -Management Team Mr. Wylie has over eleven years of experience in delinquent tax collection, appraisal district administration and litigation associated with both delinquent tax collection and appraisal district appeals. As a result, he frequently serves as a speaker for numerous tax and appraisal related organizations and associations. M. Elizabeth "Liz" Yaughn, Attorney, works out of the firm's Tyler office handling a11 aspects of delinquent property tax matters. Ms. Vaughn received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Austin College in Sherman, Texas in 1994. After doing post-baccalaureate work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, she completed an M.B.A. from St. Mary's University in San Antonio. She received a J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law in 1999, making the Dean's List in the spring of 1999. While in law school, Ms. Vaughn clerked for Hervol, Hinders & Goodbread in San Antonio primazily working on bankruptcy, property law, family law, civil litigation, and federal criminal defense. She also served as a reseazch assistant to Professor Mazsha Huie in matters of Texas Civil Procedure and European Union law. She then interned with the Department of Justice United States Trustee's Office in San Antonio, researching and authoring memoranda on issues arising in pending bankruptcy cases. Ms. Vaughn is a member of the Order of Batristers. She was active in the advocacy competitions at St. Mary's University School of Law, and was selected for the St. Mary's Law School Texas Young Lawyers Association State Moot Court Team. In her spaze time Ms. Vaughn enjoys international travel, recreational sports, and reading novels. Monica McCoy Purdy, Parfner, is from Tampa, Florida and attended public schools in that city. She graduated cum laude from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and major in Political Science. Ms. McCoy-Purdy attended law school at Thurgood Mazshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas and received her poctor of Jurisprudence in May 1992. She was a publishing member of the Thureood Mazshall Law Review and served as Publicist of the James M. Douglas Board of Advocates. Upon graduation she interned with the delinquent tax litigation division of the Harris County Attorney's Office and extensively reseazched appraisal, assessment and administrative issues involving Harris County taxpayers. She joined Linebazger Heazd Goggan Blair Graham Pena & Sampson, LLP in February 1994 in the firm's Houston office representing Cypress- Fairbanks Independent School District, North Forest Independent School District and the City of Prairie View. In addition to being licensed by the State Baz of Texas, she is also Linebarger Neard Goggan Blair Graham PeAa & Sampson, LLP `.V.