Charles R. Kimbrough is as a partner at Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP in Austin, Texas. He joined the firm in January of 2003.

For more than forty years, Mr. Kimbrough has represented private parties, local governments, and the State of Texas in trial and appellate litigation — and has provided services to local governments across Texas (including counties, cities, school districts, and special districts) involving a wide range of professional practice areas such as: economic development, including tax abatement and state/local taxation; regional planning commissions; land use regulation, including subdivision, manufactured home rental community, floodplain management, and water/wastewater matters; eminent domain matters; business regulation matters; public land and infrastructure projects, including facility acquisition and disposition matters; contracts and interlocal governmental agreements; competitive procurement; open government matters; voting rights and redistricting; public official ethics; and general counsel services.

He is a graduate of Lockhart High School (1972), Texas A&M University (B.A. 1976 and M.Agri. 1978), and South Texas College of Law (J.D. 1981). He is admitted to practice before the Texas Supreme Court (and all other state courts in Texas), the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Texas.

Mr. Kimbrough served as the Criminal District Attorney of Caldwell County, Texas (1991-2002) after being a partner of the law firm Blundell, Moore & Kimbrough in Lockhart, Texas (1981-1990). He is a member of the American Bar Association, Austin Bar Association, Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit, Caldwell County Bar Association, Champion of Justice Society of the Texas Access to Justice Foundation, and Texas Aggie Bar Association.

He is a Fellow of the Texas Prosecutor Society of the Texas District & County Attorneys Association Foundation. He also served as the President of the Caldwell County Bar Association when he practiced law in Caldwell County.

Mr. Kimbrough was the 2012 recipient of the James B. Sales “Boots on the Ground” Award of the Texas Access to Justice Commission — and was recognized as an Access to Justice Pro Bono Champion in the Texas Bar Journal — for his successful representation of pro bono clients in a complex land title lawsuit in Williamson County, Texas.

He is a frequent presenter at conferences regarding legal issues affecting Texas counties.