Barbara Ann's Resume
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:
Nominee, Texas Democratic Party, State Attorney General 2010.
Nominee, Texas Democratic Party, United States Senate 2006. (Winner, March Statewide Primary and April Statewide Runoff Elections, 2006)
Vinson & Elkins, L. L. P. Houston, Texas (Associate 1979-1987; Partner 1987-2006).
Head of Section, Alternate Dispute Resolution
University of Texas School of Law, Doctor of Jurisprudence with Honors (May 1979)
Albert Jones Scholar; Chairman, U.T. Board of Advocates; Fraternity: Order of the Barristers;
Internship: Travis County Public Defender
University of Houston, Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude (May 1976)
National Merit 4 year Academic Scholarship
Languages: English, Spanish
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Practicing on both sides of the docket, Barbara Ann Radnofsky has been listed in every one of the last 17 years in “Best Lawyers in America" and is currently listed in four areas: dispute resolution, medical malpractice, personal injury, and health care law. An attorney since 1979, she is a mother of three, wife, teacher, and mediator. After her 2006 retirement from Vinson & Elkins at age 49, she became the first woman in history to serve as the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate nominee. Barbara Ann was the first woman at Vinson & Elkins to have children as an associate and attain partnership. Barbara Ann has served as lead counsel in jury trials involving commercial disputes, medical malpractice, tax, contractual indemnity, false arrest, malicious prosecution, assault, premises liability, insurance defense matters, pedestrian and auto accidents, Section 1983 Civil Rights disputes, worker's compensation matters, and products liability; argued successfully before the Fifth Circuit on pro bono prisoner's rights and torts matters; conducted appeals there, and in Texas state appellate courts; represented clients in Congressional hearings and administrative tribunals. In 1999, Barbara Ann successfully petitioned the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prohibit defective barbecue lighters with estimated annual savings of millions of dollars and hundreds of lives.
A trained mediator (AMI Mediator Training, Summer 1991, Dallas, TX; Advanced Mediation Training AMI, November 20, 1993) and arbitrator (AAA Commercial Arbitration Training, Orlando, Florida, October 10, 1998), Barbara Ann has conducted hundreds of alternate dispute resolutions involving anti-trust, bad faith insurance, commercial, banking, bankruptcy, toxic waste disposal, pipeline explosion, and various personal injury matters.
Barbara Ann was honored as the Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas in 1988.
Barbara Ann served as a volunteer peer mediation teacher in both public and private schools for more than 15 years, and served on such boards of the Houston Urban Debate League, and World-Wide Concurrent Premiers and Commissioning Fund. Barbara Ann worked with the discoverer of the AIDS virus, 2008 Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier, in raising funds and awareness for his medical research and African AIDS clinics. She served as the Secretary and Board Member of the World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention.
She and her husband, Ed Supkis, MD, are active in supporting the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, enabling museum displays of the scrolls and commissioning publication of a scrolls volume. They are co-owners of the Brazos Bookstore, an independent bookseller and a Houston institution.
