Mindy Montford has spent 30 years working in the criminal justice system as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Mindy served as a prosecutor for the Travis County District Attorney’s Office in Austin, Texas for 12 years handling major crimes including sexual assault, child abuse, public integrity, domestic violence, and capital murder cases.

During her service in Travis County, she was appointed First Assistant District Attorney where she managed the office of 230 employees with an annual budget of over $24 million dollars. As First Assistant, Mindy started working on the widely known “Yogurt Shop Murders” investigation, which became a career highlight for her as she continued to work with law enforcement on the case for the next eight years until it was solved in 2025.

In 2021, Mindy started a statewide cold case and missing persons unit in the Texas Attorney General’s Office. In just a short period of time, the unit worked with dozens of local police departments to break open and solve multiple cold cases, including the highly publicized “Baby Holly” case that drew international attention in 2022 when the unit located Holly Miller alive and well 42 years after she went missing as an infant following the murders of her parents.

Throughout her career, Mindy has tried over 100 jury trials, testified as a resource witness before legislative committees on criminal justice reform, and has helped draft key pieces of criminal justice legislation, including the life without parole Texas statute.

Mindy co-founded the prosecution internship program at the University of Texas School of Law and served as an Adjunct Professor teaching law students about the criminal justice system. She has presented as a lecturer on various criminal law topics at trainings and seminars and has appeared on news and radio shows as an analyst providing legal commentary on court cases. She is a current Board Member of the Robbery Investigators of Texas and the Texas District and County Attorneys Foundation.