Daniella D. Landers

Daniella Landers is the President of the Houston Bar Association (Hba) for 2025-26. She is the first African-American woman and only the seventh woman to hold that position in the organization’s 155-year history.

The Hba is a nonprofit organization that provides legal education for residents in the Greater Houston area and service to the Houston community through law-related or high-impact and high-involvement projects. It promotes professionalism, access to justice, the rule of law, and equality and inclusion in the legal profession. With over 10,000 members, it is the largest metropolitan bar association in Texas and fourth-largest in the country.

Landers is an attorney with over 28 years of experience. She represents energy, chemical, commercial, and industrial clients on a broad range of environmental, health and safety, and land-use issues that focus on dispute resolution, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, Esg and sustainability, and transactional matters (mergers, sales, acquisitions, joint ventures). She has served as an adjunct law professor for over 14 years at South Texas College of Law and University of Houston Law Center and guest taught at Rice University and other institutions. She is also a prolific speaker and writer on a variety of legal and business topics.

Landers is also actively involved and holds leadership positions in several community and industry organizations, including the National Bar Association, Center for Women in Law, Women Energy Network, 50/50 Women on Boards Houston, Institute for Energy Law, Houston Area Youth Center Foundation, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the Fort Bend County (Tx) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, the Continentals Houston Chapter, Emerge Houston, and the Purdue University Honors College Advisory Board.

Landers is the recipient of many awards and recognitions, including Texas Super Lawyers, Lawdragon 500, Chambers rated, Ghwcc Role Model Award, Texas State Bar Aals Outstanding Achievement Award, Texas Lawyer Diversity Champion Award, Ghwcc Breakthrough Woman Award, Hla Alice Bonner Trailblazer Award, L.I.F.E. Matriarch Award, Nba Region V Bar Leadership Trailblazer Award, and more.

Landers received her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University, a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California, and her law degree from The University of Texas School of Law.

In her spare time, Landers is the proud mother to one son, Morgan Landers, a recent graduate of Cornell University Law School. She also enjoys theatre, the arts, and traveling abroad. Her greatest joy is hiking in national parks and other mountains around the world, having summitted Mount Kilimanjaro and other notable peaks.