Tom Berg is a “naturalized Texan” descended from five generations of Texans but born in Washington, DC and raised in Mexico while his father worked in the Foreign Service. After completing high school at the American School in Mexico City, Tom returned to Houston to attend Rice University where he graduated with a BA in History and Political Science. His law degree comes from the University of Houston and he also completed a Masters in Strategic Studies at the United States Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Tom is admitted to practice in Texas as well as federal courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, various military courts of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Following the family impulse toward public service, Tom spent twenty-seven years at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Houston including nineteen years as First Assistant. He recently took leave from Mallet | Saper | Berg from 2017 to 2019 to serve as the First Assistant District Attorney for Harris County.

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​Tom is active in the State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association, the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association. Tom retired in 2012 from the United States Army Reserve with the rank of Colonel and served as a military judge in the United States Army Trial Judiciary. He is a combat veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns as well as the peacekeeping operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.