Dominique D. Calhoun is the managing shareholder of Calhoun Meredith, PLLC – a boutique law firm specializing in plaintiff tort-related issues.
Calhoun represents hundreds of clients injured due to individual and corporate negligence. His work has recovered millions for his clients and, for consecutive years, has garnered him the distinction of being named one of Texas’s Rising Stars in the practice area of personal injury by Super Lawyers, an honor only bestowed to the top 2.5% of lawyers in the State of Texas.
Dedicated to improving the lives of all Texans and citizens throughout the country, Calhoun has contributed his legal and business acumen to a number of non-profit organizations, including serving as the 81st President of the National Bar Association (the oldest and largest Bar association of Black lawyers and judges in the United States); member of the National Council of Bar Presidents; Commissioner for the American Bar Association’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity; National Chairman of A Kappa’s Promise, a national partnership between the March of Dimes and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.; board member for Undies for Everyone; Vice-Chairman for the Greater Houston Black Chamber of Commerce’s Foundation; and member of the State Bar of Texas’s Diversity in the Profession Committee. He also serves as Legal Counsel to the Southwestern Province of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., and as the Grand Legal Advisor to the United Most Worshipful Scottish Rite Grand Lodge A.F. and A.M. of Texas, Inc.
Calhoun is a alumnus of Thurgood Marshall School of Law, where he graduated in the top ten percent of his class and was appointed by the Governor of Texas to serve as student regent for Texas Southern University – the highest-ranking student leadership position at the institution. He is also a two-time graduate of Midwestern State University, where he earned a Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Science, and served as President of the Student Government Association.