Born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, Michelle Thuillier (pronounced Twee-a) earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1997 and her Doctor of Jurisprudence in 2008 from South Texas College of Law. She was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in November 2008 and joined Jenkins and Kamin that same year. She joined the Houston office of KoonsFuller, P.C. in January 2013. After moving to Oklahoma, Michelle joined Bundy Law Office in January, 2020.
Michelle is also a Certified Public Accountant and worked in accounting and finance for eight years before law school, including as an auditor for the international accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Michelle's education and experience as a practicing CPA is invaluable to the firm's many clients who own businesses or who need to unwind years of commingling separate and community property.
While in law school, Michelle was a member of the South Texas Law Review and Managing Editor of the Texas Journal of Business Law. Her law review comment on the subject of marital property was published in the South Texas Law Review. Michelle also participated in moot court as both a brief writer and oral advocate where she won best brief at a national competition and her team placed second overall. During law school, Michelle interned at the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas with Chief Judge Thad Heartfield and at the First Court of Appeals in Houston with Justice George C. Hanks, Jr.
When not working, Michelle enjoys time with her children and husband, also a CPA, and their dogs.
Dean's Honor List. Recipient: Shook, Hardy & Bacon Outstanding Legal Writing Award; Finalist and Best Brief, National Products Liability Moot Court Competition; Semifinalist, Justice Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition. Member, South Texas Law Review. Managing Editor, Texas Journal of Business Law. Author: Valuing the Reconstituted Estate, Marriage Dissolution, State Bar of Texas, 2012; Legislative Update, Family Law Conference, South Texas College of Law, 2012; Business Entities from a Family Law Perspective, Family Law on the Front Lines, University of Texas Law School, 2010; Divorce and Defined Benefit Plans: Retiring Twenty-Five Years of Unjust Division in Berry v. Berry, 49 S. TEX. L. REV. 753, 2008. Certification/Specialties: Certified Public Accountant, Texas and California; Mediator.
