Chival Washington

Chival Washington has spent her career inside the machinery of Houston's public institutions, and she brings that fluency to every matter she touches at David & Stephens, from case preparation through the courthouse doors.

Chival holds a J.D. from Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. She came up in a Houston legal family, spending two decades in criminal defense practice before moving into civil litigation support. That early grounding gave her a working understanding of how Harris County's courts, clerks, and law enforcement agencies actually operate day to day, the kind of institutional knowledge that only comes from years spent inside the system.

She works with the courts and appointed special commissioners to schedule administrative hearings and manages the flow of condemnation cases. As a public policy professional, she also serves as a liaison between clients and government entities, coordinating with trustees, boards, and agency leadership to keep client priorities moving at the state and local level.

Chival's grounding in Houston's public institutions is exactly what David & Stephens is built to bring to its clients: not outside advisors looking in, but people who know how the system actually runs.