Kiele Linroth Pace holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business. She also attended University College London. Kiele is licensed to practice in Texas and before the U.S. District Court, Southern and Western Districts of Texas.

A former prosecutor, Kiele is a highly effective litigator with substantial trial experience. She is passionate about criminal law and first began representing people in criminal matters as a student attorney with U.T. Law's Criminal Defense Clinic, where she was honored by selection as an Interim Attorney and participation in an exclusive Advanced Clinic.

Kiele graduated from U.T. Law in 2000 and began her legal career in the Houston area, first as a criminal defense attorney, then as a prosecutor with the Polk County Criminal District Attorney's Office. After taking a two-year hiatus to do commercial litigation, Kiele returned to criminal defense full time in 2006. She practices exclusively in Austin and Travis County.

Kiele belongs to the Austin Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Robert W. Calvert American Inn of Court, the College of the State Bar of Texas, and the Federal Bar Association. She serves on the board of directors of the Texas Criminal Defense Investigators' Alliance.

Kiele's pre-law education and professional experience was in business and information technology. She majored in business and management information systems as an undergraduate and provided technology development and support services to small companies in Austin before becoming a lawyer. In what little free time she has, Kiele still dabbles in web design. She is a native Austinite and attended Austin High School (Class of '89).

THE PACE LAW FIRM, P.C.
(formerly PACE LITIGATION, P.C.)
Frost Bank Tower
401 Congress Ave, Suite 1540
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 480-9020
Fax: (512) 682-9020
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