Mari Nemec

Mari Nemec (she/her/hers) serves as Advocacy Counsel at the National LGBTQ+ Bar, where she provides substantive support to the Bar’s advocacy work, including monitoring and responding to legislative and judicial issues impacting the LGBTQ+ legal community and facilitating the Bar’s programmatic initiatives. She serves as the Bar’s liaison with the Law Student Congress and as a Co-Chair of the Bar’s Judicial Nominations and Executive Appointments Committee.

Mari most recently joined the National LGBTQ+ Bar in the summer of 2023 as the Bar’s first ever Policy Counsel, but her history with the organization goes back nearly a decade. She first joined the staff in the summer of 2017 as an intern, before serving as Manager of Public Affairs. In 2019, she left the Bar to attend law school, but remained involved in the organization’s work by serving in the Bar’s Law Student Congress first as Secretary and then for two years as Co-Chair. While in law school, she also clerked in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, worked at a local legal-aid organization, and served as a Congressional Intern to Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick. After graduating in 2022, Mari served as a Dorot Fellow at Alliance for Justice, preparing reports on federal judicial nominees and monitoring the federal courts.

Mari received her J.D. from the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law and her B.A. from the College of William and Mary. In her free time, Mari enjoys reading, hiking, trying new foods, and joyfully following the whims of her beloved cattle dog, Fig.