Deborah Cordova

Deborah L. Cordova is a founding member of and manager in Walsh McGurk Cordova Nixon in Edinburg. A native of the Rio Grande Valley, she grew up in Mission. Cordova received a BBA in accounting and her law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law. She also received her MBA from the University of Texas-Pan American.

Cordova returned to the Valley after law school and devoted her practice to real estate law, corporate law, and estate planning and probate, first
as an associate of Walker & Twenhafel in McAllen from 2002 to 2007. She then moved to Kittleman Thomas, also in McAllen, where she became an equity partner and remained there for a decade. In 2017, Cordova co-founded Walsh McGurk Cordova Nixon in Edinburg.

Cordova has served as president of the Hidalgo County Young Lawyers Association and the Hidalgo County Bar Association and Foundation, as chair of the Women’s Bar Section of the Hidalgo County Bar Association and the Women and the Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, president of Texas Women Lawyers, and vice president of finance for the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations. She is a trustee of the Texas Bar Foundation and a
sustaining life fellow. Cordova served on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors from 2019 to 2022 as a representative of the Council of Chairs. Currently, she chairs the State Bar’s Outreach
and Engagement Committee, serves on the State Bar’s Diversity in the Profession Committee, and is a member of the Women and the Law Section. Cordova is also the co-chair of the Business Law and Commercial Litigation Section of the Hidalgo County Bar Association.