Mimi Marziani is a prominent civil rights litigator with more than fifteen years of experience in constitutional law and civil rights advocacy; she is a nationally recognized expert in voting rights and Texas politics. Ms. Marziani is commonly featured in the press, and has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Texas Tribune, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Mother Jones, NPR, CNN and ABC News in recent years alone. She is a frequent speaker in a variety of public forums, and has testified before the U.S.Congress and other governmental bodies on numerous occasions. In 2020, she was recognized with an “Austin Under 40” award.

In 2023, Ms. Marziani co-founded Marziani, Stevens & Gonzalez PLLC, a boutique law firm providing battle-tested legal counsel to politically active nonprofits, candidates, election officials and similar clients, focused on legal needs arising under Texas and federal law. For over a decade, Ms. Marziani has been a trusted lawyer and strategist for progressive candidates and campaigns in Texas, including running the first coordinated, statewide voter protection program for Texas Democrats in 2014.

From 2016 to 2023, Ms. Marziani was the President of the Texas Civil Rights Project, a position she assumed in early 2016 at the age of 33. Under her leadership, TCRP tripled its budget and transformed into a national model for community lawyering, providing excellent legal representation to traditionally marginalized Texas communities and forcing the State of Texas to be accountable to the rule of law. Ms. Marziani has also worked as Counsel for the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice, and as a litigation associate of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP .

For years, Ms. Marziani has taught constitutional law and mentored young lawyers. Today, she serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, an instructor at NYU Abu Dhabi (January 2023), and on the NYU School of Law Board of Trustees. She also sits on the board of Way to Win, a donor network that invests in data-driven strategies to fund new media and grassroots efforts to win long-term political change, and recently acted as Senior Policy Counsel for democracySENTRY, a unique national project focused on achieving federal democracy reform at the first politically viable opportunity. And, from 2016-2021, Ms. Marziani chaired the Texas State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Ms. Marziani graduated cum laude from NYU School of Law, where she received the prestigious NYU President’s Service Award and the Dean John Sexton Prize for Service to the Law School. She clerked for the honorable James C. Francis, a U.S. magistrate judge for the Southern District of New York. She received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.

Ms. Marziani’s publications include opinion articles and more scholarly pieces such as:

• Mimi Marziani, Will the Texas Supreme Court let Republican state leaders deny our right to vote?, The Washington Post (May 20, 2020)
• Mimi Marziani & Robert Landicho, Issue Brief: What Starts in Texas Doesn’t Always Stay in Texas: Why Texas’s Systematic Elimination of Grassroots Voter Registration Drives Could Spread, American Constitution Society (May 30, 2018)
• Mimi Marziani, Texas Still Has a Long Way to Get It Right on Voter Registration, TribTalk (Oct. 25, 2016)
• Mimi Marziani et al., Curbing Filibuster Abuse, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law (2012)
• Mimi Murray Digby Marziani, Introduction, Symposium: Money, Politics & the Constitution Post-Citizens United, 35 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 497 (2011)
• Mimi Marziani et al., More Than Combating Corruption: The Other Benefits of Public Financing, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law (2011)
• Mimi Marziani, The Need for Super Accountability, Politico (Aug. 10, 2011)
• Mimi Marziani & Diana Lee, Filibuster Reform’s Small Steps, Politico (Jan. 27, 2011)

Ms. Marziani is admitted to Texas and New York State Bars and several federal courts, including U.S. Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas and Western District of Texas.