About Jessica MacMurtrie

Jessica MacMurtrie is an attorney at Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP in Houston, where she represents plaintiffs in personal injury cases. Born and raised in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Jessica later lived in Madrid, Spain, where she became fluent in Spanish, before moving to Houston in 2016.

Jessica earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations and Spanish Language & Literature from Oakland University. Before attending law school she worked as a Spanish teacher and advisor at St. John's School in Houston. She earned her Juris Doctor magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law Houston, where she was a Dean's List honoree and Dean's Merit Scholarship recipient, won CALI Awards in Agency & Partnership and Trends in ADR & Litigation Seminar, and competed on the Mock Trial Team.

During law school Jessica served as a law clerk at Armstrong Lee & Baker and completed a summer internship with the Harris County District Attorney's Office in the Crimes Against Children Division. She is admitted to the State Bar of Texas and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Armstrong Lee & Baker

These results are credited to Armstrong Lee & Baker. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$4.5 millionVerdict

A Texas appeals court affirmed a $4.5 million jury award for Jerry Thomas, an East Texas man who lost his hand at a sawmill in Rusk, holding that the owner never established an employment relationship and could not invoke the workers' compensation exclusive-remedy defense.

Texas Twelfth Court of Appeals (Tyler); trial court: 2nd District Court, Cherokee County · 2026Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
Verdict

Armstrong Lee & Baker won reversal of a federal preemption dismissal, reviving negligence claims brought by the family of a Tyson Foods meatpacking worker who died of COVID-19 after a coworker with a known positive test continued coming to work.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

South Texas College of Law Houston
International Relations / Spanish Language & Literature, 2025
Oakland University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas

Awards & recognition

CALI Award - Agency & Partnership
CALI Award - Trends in ADR & Litigation Seminar
Dean's Merit Scholarship

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.