Carolyn Drawhorn Wiedenfeld

Carolyn Drawhorn Wiedenfeld was born in 1960, in Port Arthur, Texas, and grew up in nearby Port Neches, Texas. She was the daughter of C.W. and Inez Drawhorn, a local M.D. and his wife. Carolyn was the youngest of five siblings. She graduated from Port Neches-Groves High School in 1978, and from Texas A&M University in 1982, In 1983, Carolyn married and gave birth to the first of her four children. Ms. Wiedenfeld began teaching Language Arts at Groves Middle School in 1995, after the birth of her children, and she remained there until she entered South Texas College of Law in 1998, at the age of 38. As a 38 year old mother of four school-aged children in Nederland, Texas, Ms. Wiedenfeld's law school experience was different than most. She commuted approximately 90 miles to Houston for class, after dropping kids off at school. After a the class day, she drove another 90 miles home. After arriving home at around 5:00, it was time to take the kids to soccer, tennis and gymnastics. Her weekends were spent as "soccer mom", or other kids' activities. With four children and a 180 mile commute, she had little time to study. However, her perseverance paid off, and Ms. Wiedenfeld was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in November of 2001, at the age of 41. Upon graduation from law school in 2001, Ms. Wiedenfeld worked as an associate attorney until 2005. Since then, she has been a solo practitioner, with her practice focused primarily on family and criminal law. Ms. Wiedenfeld is a single mother of four grown children, and the proud grandmother of two boys. She is a member of Cathedral Church in Beaumont, Texas.