Matthew Arnold, Dallas Criminal Attorney

Matthew Arnold graduated with honors from Stephen F. Austin State University and received his law degree from St. Mary’s School of Law in May 1993. During law school he played Rugby for the San Antonio Rugby Football Club and interned with the Bexar County Criminal District Attorney’s Office where he tried his first felony case with his 3rd year bar card.

After law school he became a prosecutor for 10 years, first as the First Assistant Criminal District Attorney in the Van Zandt County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, and then as an Assistant District Attorney at the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office in the Felony Trial Division.

For the next 15 years he had a private criminal defense practice doing primarily felony and Federal trial work in the DFW area until joining ranks at Dunham & Jones.

In his spare time, he and his wife enjoy going to the gym and attending their daughters’ softball and basketball games.



Matthew S. Arnold, Attorney at Law