Texas Business Litigation

Hon. Sofia Adrogué, Editor, was appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to be one of the inaugural judges of the Eleventh Business Court Division, effective September 1, 2024. The Eleventh Business Court Division is composed of Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda, Montgomery and Wharton counties. A native of Argentina, Sofia is a former Senior Trial Partner with Diamond McCarthy LLP, a 10-year-plus Texas Super Lawyer, Best Lawyer, and Latino Leaders “U.S. 25 Most Influential Hispanic Lawyer” and “Most Powerful Woman in Law.” She envisioned and serves as the Editor of this treatise, and has published and spoken on over 250 occasions. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program, an alumna of HBS (U.S. Keynote Graduation Speaker for HBS OPM 37, ostensibly the first woman, and U.S. Class Representative) and a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center, magna cum laude, and Rice University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, both on full academic scholarships.

Having handled matters arising in Texas and across the United States, as well as in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Puerto Rico, among other venues, she has obtained favorable judgments and settlements on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in U.S. state and federal courts and in ADR (mediation and arbitration) proceedings. She has served on The Advocate Editorial Board, the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee, the CLE, Mentor and Professionalism Committees of the State Bar of Texas as well as the CLE, Houston Lawyer and the Professionalism Committees of the Houston Bar Association, among others. She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the Houston Bar Foundation. She has also served as a Member of the Houston First Board of Directors as well as the City of Houston Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board.

She has received over 40 awards, including the 2025 Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Pioneering Leadership in Justice Award; the 2024 L.I.F.E. Mother’s Day Award; the 2023 University of Houston Law Center Hispanic Law Heritage Wall of Honor recognition; the 2022 Top 30 Women in Houston Award; 2021 World Affairs Council of Greater Houston Global Leader of Influence; 2020 Comcast Hispanic Heroes Award; a Greater Houston Women’s Chamber “Hall of Fame” Inductee; a Houston Chronicle Channel 11 “Texas Legend” and 10 “Extraordinary Latinos” (Inaugural List); National Diversity Council “Most Powerful and Influential Woman of Texas” and one of the “Top 50 Women Lawyers”; a University of Houston Law Center Immigration Clinic Arrival Award and a Houston Jaycees “Outstanding Houstonian”; a Texas Jaycees “Outstanding Texan”; and a U.S. Jaycees “Outstanding Young American”; among others. Sofia has been recognized for her public service by the City of Houston with a proclamation of July 10, 2004, and December 18, 2018, as “Sofia Adrogué Day.” Sofia is the mother of Sloane, Schuyler, and Stefan Adrogué Gustafson and is married to fellow Rice graduate Sten Gustafson.