Sydney has a transactional practice consisting of Contracts, Real Estate, and Business Entities. She graduated in the top ten percent of her law school class as Order of the Coif. After graduation, Sydney served as briefing attorney for the 2nd District of Texas Court of Appeals, in Fort Worth, Texas. She then worked for Gardere & Wynne, L.L.P. in downtown Dallas, Texas, before returning with Gary to Paris in 1994. Since March of 2001, Sydney has enjoyed being in the same office as Young Title Company because it is complimentary to her real estate practice.

• Wayland Baptist University, BA 1989, cum laude
• Texas Tech University School of Law, JD 1992, Magna cum laude
• University of Minnesota Law School’s International Law Summer Program, Lyon, France --1990
• State Bar of Texas -- 1992
• United State District Court,
  Northern District of Texas -- 1992
• United States District Court,
  Eastern District of Texas -- 1995
• United States Court of Appeals,
  Fifth Circuit – 1995
• United States Supreme Court -- 1999

• Mary Jones Houston Full Tuition Scholarship, 1985-1989
• Wayland Baptist University
• Regent’s Full Tuition Scholarship, 1990-1992
• Texas Tech University School of Law
• American Jurisprudence Awards,
  Texas Tech University School of Law
• Criminal Law -- 1990
• Best Brief -- 1991
• Order of the Coif, Texas Tech University School of Law, 1992
• Distinguished Young Alumni Award, -- 1994 Wayland Baptist University.

• Lamar County Bar Association, 1994-present
• 5^th Circuit Bar Association, 1995-present
• First United Methodist Church
• Leadership Lamar County, Class of 1999-2000, Class President
• Business Co-Chair, Lamar County Coalition of Education, Business & Industry 2009-present
• Lamar County Child Welfare Board, 2007-present
• Northeast Texas Workforce Solutions Board, 2009-present