For over a decade, I was a constitutional rights attorney in Houston, one of only two Texas Super Lawyers in the field of constitutional law, and an inductee into Texas Lawyers’ “Verdicts Hall of Fame”. In September 2023, I became the Vice President of the Harris County Democratic Lawyers Association. In October 2023, I took a position as a chambers attorney to the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas, Texas.

***I am no longer accepting private clients***

I have (1) secured two clearly established constitutional rights at the Fifth Circuit (the rights to film police officers and to pre-compliance review of administrative subpoenas), (2) won the nation’s largest (at the time) internet defamation verdict, and (3) deposed grand jurors under seal (the first known instance of its kind in Texas history). I am regularly appointed by courts in various capacities, including (1) as an ad litem on behalf of Harris County inmates who sued concerning their Covid-19-related conditions of confinement (where I prevailed); (2) as a habeas master; (3) as an ad litem for a parent whose rights to her child were terminated (pending); (4) as an ad litem for a Mandarin-speaking minor; and (5) as an ad litem to ensure due process was served in over 50 tax forfeiture cases.

I was also one of the first three attorneys at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport the night the “travel ban” went into effect and acted as the attorneys’ liaison with local law enforcement, successfully represented 39 school employees in a federal age discrimination lawsuit, won cases against police officers and municipalities for violating the People’s constitutional rights, defeated Harris County’s motion to dismiss “Jenny’s” case, and acquired Texas’ only known temporary restraining order that halted the TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline based on the Texas Antiquities Code.

Before moving to Houston, I worked for (and subsequently with) a former Texas Secretary of State, a law firm in Beijing, and an International Criminal Court attorney representing Darfurian refugees. While finishing my Masters of Arts in Diplomacy and International Relations, I interned for the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations and drafted a training manual designed to prevent peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse in the field. I also served as a translator for Governor Perry’s delegation to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

I am particularly fond of yoga, hosting, connecting, well-trained dogs, strategy games, and growing roses.