Chris Mazzola

Chris graduated from the University of Houston in 2006 with a B.S. in Kinesiology with a focus in Sports Administration. While at the University of Houston, Chris was accepted into the Sales Excellence Institute at the Bauer College of Business and obtained an advanced certificate in Professional Selling. After graduation, he went to work for a major insurance carrier for three years before embarking on law school. In 2012, he obtained a law degree from St. Mary's School of Law in San Antonio, Texas.

During law school, Chris served as a senator for the Student Bar Association, chair of the Young Alumni-Law Student Chapter, participated in numerous mock trial competitions, and was a member of the External Advocacy Program's Competition Negotiations team. In addition, Chris was a staff writer on The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice, where his article on how the law often criminalized victims of human trafficking was published. Because of his experience as a staff writer, he worked as a TA in the Legal Research and Writing program.

He is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, the American Association for Justice, and the National Association of Premises Liability Attorneys; a graduate of Leadership State Bar of Texas (Class of 2019); a graduate of the Texas Advocacy College of Texas (TACT); and serves on the State Bar of Texas Rules of Evidence Committee. Recently, he was recognized by National Trial Lawyers as a Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyer, named a fellow in the San Antonio Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, and received the 2025 SAYLA Outstanding Young Lawyer award. Chris and his wife, Valerie, are the proud parents to their three children: Adelyn, Finley, and Roman.