Lucy Canales

Managing Partner
Management Committee Member

Brownsville, TX | Edinburg, TX | El Paso, TX | Philadelphia, PA

Lucy Canales oversees five South Texas offices for Linebarger and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee.

Following law school, Ms. Canales gained valuable experience as a one-year judicial law clerk with the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. She has over three decades of legal expertise specializing in delinquent tax collections.

Ms. Canales holds memberships in various professional organizations, including the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Association of Assessing Officers (TAAO), the Hidalgo County Bar Association, and the Hidalgo County Women’s Bar Association. Her involvement extends to past memberships with Leadership Edinburg, Edinburg Junior League, Hidalgo County Cotillion, and a former board position with the McAllen Association of the Performing Arts. She has also played an active role as a member of the Edinburg Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and served as the co-chair of Leadership Edinburg from 2012 to 2013. In addition, she contributes as a board member of the St. Mary’s University Law Alumni Board.

Ms. Canales is admitted to practice law in Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Service and a Certificate of Achievement in Latin American Studies from Baylor University in 1984. During her time at Baylor, Ms. Canales studied multiple foreign languages, including Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her Juris Doctorate was obtained in 1988 from St. Mary’s University School of Law.