Krystal Moczygemba

Assistant Service Professor in Law

Biography

Krystal earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Economics with a minor in History from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 2017. She then earned a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in 2019. She also earned a Juris Doctorate Degree from Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Indiana in 2021.

Krystal began her career with Chasnoff Valkenaar Pepping & Stribling LLP in San Antonio, Texas, where she advised foreign and domestic insurers in complex matters arising out of director and officer liability, management liability, professional liability, cyber liability, commercial general liability, and excess insurance policies. She also represented foreign and domestic insurers in federal and state court lawsuits concerning declaratory judgments, breaches of contract, bad faith allegations, and statutory violations in complex civil litigation matters.

Krystal joined St. Mary’s University School of Law in the fall of 2024, where she is teaching legal writing and research in the school’s Legal Communications, Analysis, and Professionalism course.

Finally, Krystal married attorney, Cam O’Connor, who she met in law school, in 2024. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, family, and friends, going to the theater, reading fantasy and mystery stories, various outdoor hobbies, working with her family’s cow-calf operation, and cooking.