Nicole LoStraccoo, J.D., born in San Fransico, California and ended up in Nacogdoches running for District Attorney. Married to fellow attorney James R. LoStracco and has two children. She is a brunette, Republican, Red Raider.
Mrs. Lostracco was born in San Francisco, but shortly after that her father was transferred to Belgium till she was in the third grade. Then they moved back to California where she continued school to go to Mills College in Oakland, California graduated and decided to go to law school. Her number one choice was Texas Tech In Lubbock, which is where she met her fellow attorney husband. After finishing law school she moved to Nacogdoches where her husband was originally from.
When deciding to go to law school LoStracco has several personality traits about her that fit the job some of them were she is a very approachable person, isn’t scared to talk in front of a large group of people, and she didn’t want a job that she could say what she though because it might cause her to get fired. After graduating six months early her specialty first was in divorce, so she found her first job in Lufkin. After a year there she didn’t like the long commute and decided to take a job with the district attorney, Tim James, where she was the prosecutor for violence against women. She handled all the cases that came in that involved women or sexually assaulted children for about eight years. Then she went on to form her own criminal defense practice in 2004 which was totally opposite of what she had been doing for so long and about 90 percent of her cases ended up with a plea bargain. On the other hand she had a couple of requirements for her clients, which were that they tell her the whole truth and if she can tell they are lying, she refuses to represent them. She also said, “I will take many cases, but the one thing I will not defend are child sex offenders. I don’t know if it is because I have children of my own; of what I just refuse.”
Mrs. LoStracco also does many public speeches on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University about the dangers of alcohol, drugs, hazing, rape etc. Recently she was one of the speakers at SFA’s Risk Management Training on September 24 just ten days before the death of SFA student, Nikolas Gallegos, which was alcohol related.
Not only does she speak about the effects of such things she is starting a new program where she informs students on how to react after being caught by the law. She said, “Many students make matters worse for them because they like to handle their tickets by themselves because they try to hide it from their parents.” She wants to educate students on how to handle the after math of probations or getting records swiped clean.
LoStracco has taken on a new challenge and is running as a Republican for the office of district attorney of Nacogdoches. Her running mate is aquitance Stephanie Stephens who is now district attorney and also a Republican. If LoStracco wins the primaries on March forth her name will be put on the ballot. Currently there are no Democrats running against them which means whoever wins the election will automatically win the position and will start work in January 2009.
LoStracco took a stand when she said, “To be a good district attorney it takes good office management skills and a good attorney.” The win rate has gone down 50 percent and there are a lot of staffing issues that she is ready to take on and handle. LoStracco has lawyer in her blood because her father and godfather were lawyers, she loves criminal law, and likes the team aspect that comes with it.
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