About Judge Stone

Kathleen is a Senior State District Judge and a Senior Statutory Probate Judge who has been practicing civil, family and probate trial law since 1979. Licensed to practice in Texas, she is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, has been a full time Civil District Judge or Visiting Judge since 1991 and was a Statutory Probate Judge in Harris County from 2008 through 2010 and a Visiting Probate Judge around the state since 2011.

Kathleen has extensive experience as a mediator and arbitrator of civil and probate disputes. Judge Stone has also been frequently appointed by the courts to serve as a special discovery master and/or special judge. Further she is often requested to serve as a Visiting Judge in civil and criminal courts in the Eleventh Administrative Judicial Region of Texas and as a visiting Statutory Probate Judge around the state of Texas.

Judge Stone was elected to the 55th Judicial District Civil Court in Harris County, Texas in November of 1990. She was re-elected to the bench without opposition in November of 1993 and served until December 1998. During her tenure on the bench, she tried hundreds of civil cases including commercial/business cases as well as personal injury and products liability claims. In November 2008, Judge Stone was the first woman ever elected to any Probate Bench in Harris County, where she served as Judge of Harris County Probate Court # 1 until December 31, 2010. During her time as a Statutory Probate Judge, she tried a number of complex probate cases to a jury including Will contests, wrongful death cases and medical malpractice cases.