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Tracie J. Renfroe
Fellow since 2025
Houston,
Texas
Region 6 AR, LA, NM, OK, and TX
Tracie Renfroe has a national trial practice focusing on defense of toxic tort, environmental, product liability and other mass torts. Fortune 100 clients in the energy, manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical sectors around the country rely on her for trial strategy and advocacy. She represents clients in federal and state civil jury trials, MDLs and state court coordinated actions, class actions, arbitrations, and administrative agency proceedings. She also Chairs King & Spalding’s Global Energy Practice and is Managing Partner of the firm’s Houston office.
Tracie is particularly known for presenting complex scientific and technical issues to judges, juries and arbitration panels. She has obtained or contributed to favorable verdicts and awards for Shell Oil Company, Chevron USA, ConocoPhillips, and Johnson & Johnson, among others.
Tracie was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2023, and has received recognition for her advocacy and litigation skills in environmental, mass torts and product liability cases from Chambers USA, Law 360, Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, The Best Lawyers in America, ILO Client Choice Awards, Corporate Counsel and Super Lawyers.
Degrees
- B.A. Baylor University
- J.D. Baylor University
Admissions
- Texas
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1986)
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1986)
- Supreme Court of the United States (2002)
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1996)
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (1990)
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (1989)
- Texas (1985)
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2008)
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2021