Maria Garrett de Liévano

Maria Garrett de Liévano is a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Chicago, and earned her law degree from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). During law school, she was a research associate for family law professor Melissa Murray and a recipient of the Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women Fellowship and of the Herma Hill Kay Fellowship. In her second year of law school, Maria helped to found the non-profit organization Family Violence Appellate Project. She sat on the organization’s Board of Directors from 2012 to 2014 and remains the chair of their New Leadership Counsel.Before joining DeLacey, Riebel & Shindell, Maria was an associate at Sideman & Bancroft. Previously she served as a summer clerk at Whiting, Fallon, Ross & Abel and in the family law division of Bay Area Legal Aid. Prior to law school, she worked at Josiah-Lake Gardiner LLP, a family law boutique firm in London. She is the recipient of a Marshall Fund Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Chancellor Fellowship for American leaders, and an awardee of the Fulbright.