Robyn F. Katz

  • Adjunct Professor
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Robyn Katz is an assistant city attorney for the City of Austin, where she primarily works with the Austin Police Department and Austin Regional Intelligence Center. Katz is also a contract attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, where she provides legal guidance concerning animal cruelty cases to law enforcement and prosecutors throughout the country. She also serves as an adjunct professor at St. Mary’s School of Law, where she teaches Animal Law. 

Katz has extensive experience in criminal prosecution of animal cruelty cases, having served as an assistant district attorney for two large counties in Texas. Throughout her tenure as a prosecutor, she primarily handled family violence, and animal cruelty matters and provided training to law enforcement and prosecutors in Texas regarding