Shirley Horng
Scholar Community Development / Housing Legal Aid Consumer / Economic Justice
Class of 2007
"Don't give up. Be persistent with applications to individual positions and be patient with the general public interest job search."
Shirley Horng most recently served as a senior staff attorney in the Consumer Law Unit at Legal Aid DC, where she began working when she graduated from Texas Law in 2007. She represented homeowners facing foreclosure and consumers in debt-collection matters before the D.C. Superior Court. Earlier in her tenure, she worked in the organization’s Housing Law Unit, representing low-income tenants in eviction and housing-conditions cases.
At Texas Law, Shirley participated in the Housing Clinic and the Criminal Defense Clinic and interned with the Texas Civil Rights Project. She spent her summers with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid in Eagle Pass and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.