CANDANCE CASTILLO, ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY

PHONE:
O: 210.824.2188

BAR ADMISSIONS:
Texas

EDUCATION:

B.A. The University of Notre Dame

J.D. St. Mary’s University School of Law

BIO:

Candace Lee Castillo was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. She attended The University of Notre Dame in Indiana where she played the trombone in the Band of the Fighting Irish. It was there she met her future husband Kevin who also played the trombone.

After she graduated in 2016, she lived in Austin, Texas and worked as a pre-school teacher for a private daycare. Candace attended law school at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. At St. Mary’s she worked as a Staff Writer and later as Editor in Chief for The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice. Her publication, House Bill 3: An IOU Texas Public Schools and Communities of Color Cannot Afford was published in 2021. Candace later worked as an associate attorney for a personal injury firm in Corpus Christi and joined Mazurek, Belden, & Burke, P.C. in July 2024.

Candace has a variety of interests and is always starting a new hobby in her free time but reading and all things books will always be her favorite.