She received her Bachelor of Business Administration and Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin.
[3] From 1990 to 1991, she clerked for Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
[3] Bland served as the judge of the 281st Judicial District Court in the civil trial division of Harris County, Texas, having initially been appointed by then–Governor George W. Bush in 1997.
Bland sat as an appellate justice for 15 years, winning elections in 2004 (to complete the unexpired term), 2006, and 2012.
Along with many other Republican incumbents on the court (located in heavily Democratic Harris County), she lost her re-election bid in 2018, and returned to private practice.