Keiara Burke is a trial lawyer at Zehl & Associates in Houston, Texas, a personal injury firm. She joined the firm after a year clerking there.
Burke is originally from Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in a military family that moved around the country. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, graduating summa cum laude, and interned with a Fortune 500 company during her undergraduate years.
She moved to Houston to attend Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, where she also graduated summa cum laude and was on the Dean’s List throughout law school. She served on the Thurgood Marshall Law Review and on the leadership boards of the Barbara C. Jordan Chapter of the Black Law Students Association and the Student Bar Association.