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Policy Director
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Rebecca Bernhardt received her law degree from Yale Law School in 1997. She served as a law clerk for Senior U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice, Eastern District of Texas. She practiced federal civil rights, immigration and labor law in West Texas and South Texas until 2004. She then worked as a Senior Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, engaged in federal and state court litigation addressing racial disparities and due process violations in drug law enforcement. Starting in 2006, she represented the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU of Texas) at the Texas State Legislature on immigration, border security, privacy, criminal justice and police practices. From 2007 to 2010 she served as Policy Director for the ACLU of Texas. She joined Texas Defender Service as Policy Director in April 2010. She is licensed to practice law in Texas and California (inactive) and admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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