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Maria S. Sanchez
Maria S. Sanchez is a shareholder of the Firm and a member of the Firm’s Public Law, Utility and Environmental Sections. She was educated at Incarnate Word College (BA, 1978) and Texas Southern University (JD, 1986) and was a member of Law Review and of Phi Delta Phi honorary fraternity. She was admitted to the Texas bar in 1986, and is licensed to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Western Districts of Texas. Additionally, Ms. Sanchez has a Martindale-Hubble Peer Review Rating of AV. This rating is the highest for legal ability and ethical standards. Ms. Sanchez has over twenty years of administrative law experience. Ms. Sanchez was employed as a Staff Attorney with the Texas Water Commission and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) from February 1993 to May 1999. While employed with the TNRCC, she provided legal support to the Water Utilities and Air Quality Divisions. She has experience handling: complex administrative hearings; air permit proceedings including emergency orders; draft and review contracts; Water District matters, including hearings on impact fees, creation and conversion proceedings and reviewing bond orders; proceedings for applications of water and sewer Certificates of Convenience and Necessity; wholesale rate appeals; ratemaking; rulemaking; and prepared bill impact statement during the legislative sessions. As a member of the Firm’s Public Law Utility and Environmental Sections, Ms. Sanchez represents clients before the Public Utility Commission and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas Administrative and Environmental Law and Public Utility Law Sections, Austin Bar Association, Texas Women Lawyers, Travis County Women Lawyers Association, Hispanic Bar Association of Austin, American Bar Association, Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, State Bar of Texas standing committee on Racial Diversity in the Profession, Impact Austin, Board Member of Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas, Board member of the Travis County Women Lawyers Foundation and Board member of the Hispanic Bar Association of Austin Foundation.
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