Judge Kerrigan is a panel arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, London Court of International Arbitration, Judicial Workplace Arbitrations and has also been selected to arbitrate independent arbitrations. She is a Credentialed Mediator with The Texas Mediator Credentialing Association and is a Certified Mediator with the AA White Dispute Resolution Center. While on the bench she participated in the National Courts and Science Institute and was an invited participant in the Los Alamos Judicial Science Program and a Senior Fellow of ASTAR (The Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource) Judge Fellow Program. In 2015 she was named Trial Judge of the Year by the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists. As a trial lawyer she was honored to be invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates. In her trial practice she handled tort and commercial litigation and served as national coordinating counsel on product lines for a major manufacturer and on the national products liability counsel team for manufacturer of children’s products, and on the national trial team for a medical device manufacturer. She is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law.
