Rebecca (Beth) Stevens is a Texas-based litigator with an extensive expertise in voting rights and elections administration. Her legal career has focused on challenging voter suppression laws and practices that disproportionately affect communities of color, low-income populations, and individuals with disabilities. Ms. Stevens has been involved in numerous high-profile cases, working tirelessly to ensure that all eligible Texans have the right to cast their ballots freely and fairly.

From 2017-2020, Ms. Stevens served as the Voting Rights Legal Director for the Texas Civil Rights Project, leading a team of voting rights attorneys and legal professionals. Ms. Stevens managed the team through a tumultuous 2018 midterm election, 2019 anti-voter state legislative session, and election protection efforts during the March 2020 primary election, while overseeing litigation against the State of Texas challenging its voter suppression tactics.

In 2020, Ms. Stevens took a leadership position with then-Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins, helping lead a team at the Clerk’s office through running a presidential election during a global pandemic. Her team brought innovations like drive-thru voting, 24-hour voting, and extensive mail ballot outreach to Harris County. After the 2020 election, Ms. Stevens became the Chief Director of Voting for Isabel Longoria, the first Harris County Elections Administrator. In 2021-2022, Ms. Stevens worked to help set up the brand new office while operating in a near-constant election cycle.

In addition to her litigation work, Ms. Stevens is a passionate collaborator. She regularly partners with grassroots organizations, non-profits, and local advocacy groups to raise awareness about voting rights issues and to mobilize voters across the state. Ms. Stevens is a staunch believer in the power of democracy and has committed her career to defending the fundamental right to vote. Her work has earned her recognition from civil rights organizations, and she continues to be a leading voice in the fight for a fairer and more inclusive electoral system in Texas.

Prior to her career in law of democracy issues, Ms. Stevens specialized in attorney discipline and legal ethics. With extensive experience navigating the intricacies of the Texas State Bar’s disciplinary process, she earned a strong reputation for providing effective counsel in attorney discipline cases. Ms. Stevens represented the Commission for Lawyer Discipline in major cases seeking attorney discipline. For instance, she was counsel in cases which sought and obtained discipline against the prosecutors who withheld exculpatory evidence in murder cases against Michael Morton and Anthony Graves cases. She received several accolades for this work.

Ms. Stevens grew up in South Texas, received a B.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin and earned her J.D. from Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Ms. Stevens’s publications include:

• Rebecca Harrison Stevens, Meagan Taylor Harding, Joaquin Gonzalez, Emily Eby, Handcuffing the Vote: Diluting Minority Voting Power Through Prison Gerrymandering and Felon Disenfranchisement, 21 Scholar: St. Mary ’s L. Rev. & Soc. Just. 195, 196 (2019).