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Hon. Andrea K. Bouressa
Judge · Seat 1A
Texas Business Court · First Business Court Division (Dallas)
Biography
Andrea Bouressa was appointed Judge in the First Division of the Texas Business Court by Governor Greg Abbott on September 1, 2024. Prior to that, Governor Abbott appointed her to serve as the first Judge of the 471st Judicial District Court in Collin County, created September 1, 2019. She was subsequently elected to that bench and served a two-year term as Local Administrative District Judge. On the district court bench, she presided over thousands of civil disputes and resolved as many as 200 cases a month. In 2022, the Texas Aggie Bar Association named Judge Bouressa their Rising Aggie Lawyer. She is an active member of TABA and previously served as a Board Member and Treasurer for that organization. She is also a member of the Collin County Bar Association and the Curt B. Henderson Inn of Court, as well as the Collin County Women Lawyers’ Association which honored her with their 2023 Outstanding Jurist award. In private practice, she focused on business and commercial litigation and state court appeals. Judge Bouressa is a third-generation Aggie, with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Texas A&M University. She also holds a Master of Science in Sociology from the University of North Texas, and a Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. She and her husband of more than 20 years live in Collin County and have two daughters.
Opinions by Judge Bouressa (2)
Contract Ambiguity Survives Summary Judgment Where Competing Interpretations Both Find Textual Support
In Fiberwave v. AT&T Enterprises, Division 1 denied cross-motions for summary judgment on contract interpretation, holding that a residual compensation provision was ambiguous where both parties' readings found support in the text but neither fully reconciled all language. The court granted summary judgment dismissing all fraud claims—plaintiff's fraudulent inducement claim for lack of justifiable reliance, and defendant's counterclaims on no-evidence grounds and under the economic loss rule.
Texas Fair-Notice Pleading Standard Distinguishes Federal 737 MAX Dismissals in Boeing Proximate Causation Dispute
In Southwest Airlines Pilots Ass'n v. Boeing Co., the Texas Business Court denied Boeing's motion for judgment on the pleadings, holding that federal 737 MAX dismissals based on attenuated proximate causation are not dispositive under Texas's fair-notice pleading standard, which—unlike federal pleading requirements—entitles plaintiffs to replead deficient claims before suffering adverse judgment. The court distinguished SWAPA's allegations that Boeing made direct misrepresentations during collective bargaining negotiations from federal cases involving indirect lost-wage claims by flight crew.