About Cassandra Hernandez

Cassandra Hernandez is an experienced trial lawyer, community volunteer, and committed Democrat who is running for State Representative in the 2024 election cycle. As a lawyer, Cassandra is passionate about representing individuals and defending their rights. It is because of her strong desire to help people that she became a lawyer and now seeks to help more people through public service. Cassandra understands that Texas today needs leaders with a servant heart, new ideas and fresh perspectives to tackle tough problems.

Cassandra knows we need practical solutions to many challenges, from fully funding public schools, to stopping gun violence, to increasing access to healthcare, ensuring strong public safety and addressing the Fentanyl crisis. She is also committed to finding ways for more people to have access to economic opportunity, and protecting homeowners from rising costs.

Cassandra was born in the Texas panhandle, raised by loving grandparents and a single mother after losing her father to gun violence. When Cassandra was little, her mother made a tough choice to leave her hometown for North Texas to give Cassandra opportunities she didn’t have when she was growing up. Cassandra also happily gained a father, a noted local trial lawyer, who adopted her and exposed her to the ability to help others through the practice of law, which became her profession.

After graduating early from Garland’s Naaman Forest High School thanks to amazing public school teachers, Cassandra received a scholarship to attend the University of Houston where she obtained her business degree, and the South Texas College of Law where she obtained her law degree. Today she practices law beside her father as a partner in their law firm, handling both personal injury and immigration cases. Cassandra has been recognized as one of D Magazine’s 2023 Best Lawyers, 2023 Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2023 National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and recently received the Pete Torres Jr. Community Service Award from the State Bar of Texas Hispanic Issues Section.

Cassandra already has experience in Austin. She has advocated and headed up a lobby day in the Capitol as a statewide women’s caucus chair, fought for Medicaid expansion with grassroots organizations, and spoke up as an Everytown Survivor Fellow regarding common sense gun legislation as a survivor of gun violence. Cassandra also served and fought for transparency and ethics as a Commissioner on the City of Dallas Ethics Advisory Commission.

Cassandra is an avid volunteer. She has been a leader, volunteer, and member of many organizations, including: Catholic Charities, Dallas and Galveston-Houston; Genesis Women’s Shelter; Hope’s Door; Dallas Pets Alive; Stewpot; Attitudes & Attire (Boots to Heels); Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Trial Lawyers Association; Dallas Women Lawyers Association; St. Thomas More Society; Dallas Evictions 2020; We Care; Mexican American Bar Association; DFW Muslim Bar Association; Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation; NAACP; LULAC; Texas Bar College; Texas Trial Lawyers Association; JL Turner Legal Association; the Dallas LGBT Bar Association; Sickofit Texas; Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary; Dallas Democratic Forum; Annie’s List; Metrocrest Services; Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce; and Coppell Chamber of Commerce.

When she is not advocating on behalf of others and her community, Cassandra and her husband enjoy spending time with their rescue dog and exploring events and restaurants in North Texas.