Seana Willing

Seana Willing is a 1993 graduate of St. Mary’s University School of Law, in San Antonio, Texas, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics in 1985 from the College of Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is licensed to practice law in all Texas courts, as well as before the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and the United States Supreme Court.

Willing has served as Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the State Bar of Texas since March 4, 2019. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of the Texas Ethics Commission (2017-2019). From 1999-2017, Willing was with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, serving as its General Council (2001-2003) and Executive Director (2003-2017). Before serving as a prosecutor for the San Antonio Regional Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel (1998-1999), Willing was in private practice in San Antonio, Texas.

For more than 25 years, Willing has been a guest speaker on the topic of ethics, professional conduct, and the Texas attorney and judicial disciplinary systems before a variety of diverse audiences, including state and federal judges, court staff, lawyers, law students, law enforcement officers, legislators, government officials, lobbyists, and foreign dignitaries. She has also served as a visiting lecturer in Poland and as a pro bono legal consultant in the Republic of Georgia and in the Kyrgyz Republic. In 2016, Willing was presented with the “Exemplary Non-Judicial Faculty Award” by the Texas Center for the Judiciary. Willing has also been recognized by Texas Lawyer as one of “30 Extraordinary Women in the Law” (2008) and an “Impact Player of the Year” (2006). She has written and co-authored several articles and notes published in the South Texas Law Review (Summer 2010), the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution, Lublin, Poland (May 2012), Texas Bar Journal (December 2019, November 2022, December 2022, January 2023), and the State Bar Litigation Section Report, The Advocate (Winter 2019).