Board Certified in Criminal Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization 

Inger Chandler is a Houston-area criminal defense attorney. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Mississippi University for Women (BA in English – 1995) and her law degree from South Texas College of Law (JD – 2003). Inger was employed as a prosecutor with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office from 2003 through 2016. During her time with the Harris County District Attorney’s office, she was assigned to the Misdemeanor Division, the Felony Trial Bureau, the Family Criminal Law Division, the Juvenile Division, and the Post-Conviction Writs Division. Inger spent her last three and a half years with the Harris County District Attorney’s office as the Chief of the Conviction Integrity Unit, where she litigated post-conviction requests for DNA testing, investigated claims of actual innocence, and handled mass-notification case reviews. 

Following her career at the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Inger opened a solo criminal defense practice focused predominantly on felony indigent defense at both the trial and appellate level. She was first-degree and appellate certified for felony appointments in Harris and Montgomery County, as well as second-chair certified for death penalty capital murder cases in the 2nd and 11th Administrative Judicial Regions. 

In 2022, Inger was appointed as an associate judge for the Harris County Criminal District Courts where she presided over bond hearings, adjudication hearings, and selected over sixty (60) juries. She returned to private practice in December 2023. 

Inger has spoken at numerous conferences about wrongful convictions/actual innocence, Brady evidence, and flawed forensics. In 2018, she obtained her Board Certification in Criminal Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.