Tracy Almanzan

Assistant Service Professor of Law

Biography

Tracy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management with a minor Communications Management from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas in 2002. She also earned a Juris Doctorate Degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas in 2006.

Tracy began her career with the El Paso County Attorney’s Office in 2006 as the Community Prosecutor. During her time at the County Attorney’s Office, she received training in representing clients in protective orders applications, handling mental health commitments, prosecuting juvenile cases, and eventually, representing Child Protective Services. In 2016, she went into private practice, where she practiced in child welfare law, juvenile law, family law, and some probate law.

Tracy has been a part of several committees through the State Bar of Texas throughout her career, to include the Racial Diversity in the Profession Committee and the Child Abuse Committee. For two years, she was the Chair of the Diversity in the Profession Committee and is now still a member. In addition, she recently served on Former State Bar President Sylvia Borunda-Firth’s State Bar Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. She is now a member of newly created Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion State Bar Committee.

Tracy joined the University of Texas at El Paso in February 2023 as a Professor of Practice for the Law School Preparation Institute in the Patti and Paul Yetter Center for Law. Tracy taught classes to include legal writing and legal research.

Finally, Tracy married attorney, Alex Almanzán, in 2006 and they have two beautiful children, Noa and Paloma, and a dog named Frida. In her free time, she enjoys supporting her children’s love of theater arts, sports, and music, reading, traveling, and working out on her Peloton.