Jon Selden and Company P.C.
Jon Selden & Company PC President Jon Selden has almost a decade of legal, political, and journalism experience.
Selden founded Jon Selden & Company PC to fight for good people who have been hurt or killed by other people’s reckless behavior—like drunk or hit-and-run driving.
Previously, he worked as an attorney for two of Austin and Houston’s most prestigious law firms.
As an associate with with one of the most accomplished personal injury lawyers in Austin, Selden managed a huge docket of nearly 100 personal injury cases at a time. He brought in over $1.3 million in settlement value.
In Houston, Selden worked as an attorney at one of Houston’s oldest and most prestigious maritime law firms. There, he represented global commercial shipping interests, frequently climbing aboard disabled or troubled tankers and freighters in the Houston Ship Channel to investigate everything from damaged cargo, to ship collisions, to deaths at sea.
In 2006, Selden joined the state capital bureau of a major national newspaper as its state government and legal reporter. He routinely broke big stories about state and national legal trends, and occasionally got in trouble for ruffling feathers of powerful people in high places.
Selden attended law school at both Gonzaga University School of Law and the University of Houston Law Center, graduating with his juris doctor degree in December 2003.
While at Gonzaga, the Spokane, Wash.-native moved across the country to Houston to work for Fisher Boyd Brown & Boudreaux LLP, one of the premier litigation firms in the world.
Selden graduated from Brigham Young University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a minor in Journalism.
While an undergraduate political science student at BYU, Selden worked as a legislative staffer for four Utah State Legislators—participating in everything from public relations to policy advisement.
In 2001, Selden served as the Senior Political Reporter for BYU NewsNet’s Daily Universe newspaper, winning several press awards for his work covering major state legislative battles. He also covered the 2000 U.S. presidential election for a statewide public television affiliate as a battleground state correspondent.
Selden decided to try politics for himself in 1999, when he ran for a city-wide city council seat in his college town. He lost, but his cause did not. Two months later, the city’s mayor asked Selden to serve on a powerful committee appointed to study and recommend urban development policies to the city council.
Selden married Austin lawyer Suzette Selden in 2003 and lives in beautiful Southwest Austin, where he is active in his church and community. He is an Eagle Scout and volunteers several hours a week with a local Boy Scouts of America troop. He snowboards and backpacks in his native Pacific Northwest as often as he can.
You can reach Selden at jon@seldenco.com.
