austinbar.org APRIL 2025 | VOLUME 34, NUMBER 3
Announcing the 2025-26 Austin Bar Board Slate of Nominees
The Austin Bar’s Nominating Committee has released its slate of nominees for the 2025-26 board of directors
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble
Sarah Harp
Ciara Parks
Maitreya Tomlinson
Voting for the Austin Bar’s board of directors opens on April 11. You will be emailed a link to the ballot. Austin Bar members who are also members (except Sustaining Members) of AYLA will also be sent a ballot to vote in the AYLA elections. If you do not receive the ballot, please check your spam folder first, then contact billy@austinbar.org. Voting concludes on May 1 at 4 p.m. The following candidates are running uncontested for officer positions:
PRESIDENT-ELECT Judge Maya Guerra Gamble Judge Guerra Gamble was elected to the 459th District Court bench in 2018. Her varied career prior to taking the bench included a solo practice representing children and parents in child protective services cases; representing whistleblowers at O’Connell & Soifer; prosecuting child pornography and child exploitation cases for the Texas Attorney General; suing companies committing fraud against the United States for the Department of Justice; and clerking for Judge
Richard Cudahy on the 7th Circuit. She currently serves as the Austin Bar secretary. A previous chair of the Equity (now DEI) Committee, Guerra Gamble oversaw the inaugural Equity Summit presented by the Austin Bar. Guerra Gamble is a native Austinite, graduate of Austin High School, Yale University, and Yale Law School. She is married with two teen sons. She is a devoted Scouter and honored to have recently been named a Courageous Judge by the National Conference of Judges.
ber of the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association. She volunteers monthly with Volunteer Legal Services. She is a life-fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and a member of the District 9 nominating committee, as well as a Guardian Angel for the Center for Child Protection, and a supporter of Austin Wildlife Rescue. Additionally, this year she served as the beverage coordinator for the Austin Bar’s Pro Bono Fall Festival and was the silent auction lead for the Foundation Gala. She was a member of the Austin Bar/ AYLA CASA 5k team and worked the craft table for the Evening with Santa event. Sarah was a project lead for the AYLA MLK Day of Service and was a book donor for Adoption Day. She also currently serves on the TYLA Communications and Projects com-
SECRETARY Sarah Harp Sarah Harp is an appellate attorney and currently serves as a director of the Austin Bar and the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA). She is the immediate past president of AYLA and is an active mem-
Board Slate continued on page 28.