Attorney Boggs-Perez received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in Public Administration, cum laude, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her Juris Doctorate degree at the age of 48 from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio. She is a former judicial intern to the Honorable Rebecca Simmons of the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals; former judicial extern to Chief Justice Piper Griffin, Orleans Parish Civil District Court, Louisiana; and former law clerk in the trial division of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She served both as a staff writer (Volume 42) and associate editor (Volume 43) of the St. Mary’s Law Journal. She is the 2012 recipient of the Judge Jack Miller Award, presented by the St. Mary’s Law Faculty Advocacy Committee and one of 10 in her law school graduation class inducted into the National Order of Barristers.