Attorney Boggs-Perez received her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in Public Administration, cum laude, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her Juris Doctorate degree at the age of 48 from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. She is a former judicial intern to the Honorable Rebecca Simmons of the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals; former judicial extern to Chief Justice Piper Griffin, Orleans Parish Civil District Court, Louisiana; and former law clerk in the trial division of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She served both as a staff writer (Volume 42) and associate editor (Volume 43) of the St. Mary's Law Journal. She is the 2012 recipient of the Judge Jack Miller Award, presented by the St. Mary's Law Faculty Advocacy Committee and one of 10 in her law school graduation class inducted into the National Order of Barristers.
Attorney Boggs-Perez has served as the mock trial coach for Judson High School since 2016. She serves on the Board of the Law Alumni Association of St. Mary's University and is the 2018 President of the Black Alumni Law Association (BALA) of St. Mary's Law School. Attorney Boggs-Perez holds professional memberships in the Texas Bar College, San Antonio Bar Association, San Antonio Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and San Antonio Black Lawyers Association. Attorney Boggs-Perez is one of two recipients of the 2018 "Future Legends In the Law" Award presented by the San Antonio Black Lawyers Association. She is a volunteer mediator at the Bexar County Dispute Resolution Center.