On January 19, 2017, the Board of Disciplinary Appeals signed an order terminating the interlocutory suspension signed on July 30, 2014 against Houston attorney Jessica Lynn Siegel, 48, State Bar of Texas Card No. 24013509. On or about October 31, 2013 Ms. Siegel was convicted of tampering with a governmental record, an Intentional Crime as defined in the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, and sentenced to incarceration for two years, probated for four years in The State of Texas v. Jessica Sekerka Siegel, Case No. 12-03-02754-CR, in the 221st District Court of Montgomery County, Texas. Siegel appealed her criminal conviction and on June 24, 2015, the Ninth Court of Appeals in Beaumont reversed her conviction and rendered a judgment of acquittal in case no. 09-13-00536-CR . On January 4, 2016 the Ninth Court of Appeals issued its mandate. BODA cause number 53875.
