Stacey M. Soule

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Personal Information

The Court of Criminal Appeals appointed Stacey as State Prosecuting Attorney in December 2016, after having served as an Assistant State Prosecuting Attorney.

Stacey is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and obtained her Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2001. She began her career in the Post conviction Litigation Division of the Texas Attorney General's Office. In 2003, she joined the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' central staff, where she handled Article 11.07 post conviction writs of habeas corpus, as well as original writs and writs of mandamus and prohibition.

From September 2005 until October 2011, Stacey served as the permanent staff attorney to Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' Judge Michael Keasler. In that capacity, she drafted proposed opinions in death penalty cases, petitions for discretionary review, and habeas corpus matters.

With Judge Keasler, Stacey co authored an article published in the Texas Bar Journal on admissibility of scientific evidence. Stacey M. Goldstein & Michael E. Keasler, Bad Science, Bad Law: Judging Science on Appeal in Texas Criminal Cases and Related Ethical Issues, 74 TEX. BAR JOURNAL, 568 73 (July 2011). And in April 2012, she authored an article on jury unanimity issues in Texas criminal cases. Stacey M. Goldstein, Jury Unanimity in Criminal Cases, 75 TEX. BAR JOURNAL, 300-01 (April 2012). From 2005 to 2011, she contributed to Judge Keasler's annual Southern Methodist University Law Review article titled: "Criminal Procedure: Confession, Search and Seizure."

As an Assistant State Prosecuting Attorney, Stacey has served as a presenter at the Texas Center for the Judiciary's Criminal Justice Conference, the University of Texas School of Law's Robert O. Dawson Conference on Criminal Appeals, and the Texas Municipal Courts Education Center's Traffic Safety Initiative Conference. She also written several continuing legal education papers on writs of habeas corpus and ethics. She also served on the Texas District and County Attorney's Publications Committee for three years.

Stacey served four terms as a board member on the Austin chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. On the weekends, Stacey and her husband enjoy participating in high performance driving events held at Texas' various racetracks, including Circuit of the Americas.

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Office Information

Appointed by the Court of Criminal Appeals