Teresita Tamez

Teresita Tamez is a Senior Litigation Attorney with Cordell & Cordell in Boise who practices family law. She represents clients through difficult domestic matters and brings experience from family law, criminal defense, mental-health proceedings, and prosecution. Her current practice is focused exclusively on family law, allowing her to apply a broad litigation background to disputes that affect parents, children, property, and long-term family arrangements.

Teresita earned a B.S. in Accounting from Hodges University in 2008 and a J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 2013. In law school, she participated on the Native American Law Moot Court Team and interned with the Tax Law Clinic. Her accounting education and litigation training provide useful tools for analyzing financial issues, organizing evidence, and presenting client positions in contested family law proceedings.

Teresita began her legal career working in Native American law and later maintained a general practice focused on family law and criminal defense. She represented respondents in involuntary mental-health treatment proceedings before moving into criminal prosecution for municipal and county offices in Washington. That experience exposed her to high-stakes hearings, courtroom advocacy, evidentiary issues, and public-law decision-making before she joined Cordell & Cordell.

Teresita Tamez is licensed in Washington and Idaho and brings both defense and prosecution experience to her family law work. Her background helps her evaluate how courts, opposing counsel, and public agencies may approach contested matters. She has also received recognition for volunteer legal service and has presented on criminal-law developments, reflecting a professional record that combines courtroom practice, public service, and client advocacy.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Cordell & Cordell
• Member, Washington State Bar Association
• Member, Idaho State Bar

Licensed State

• Washington
• Idaho

Education

• Gonzaga University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Hodges University
  Bachelor of Science (BS) in Accounting

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