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Texas C-BAR Staff
Frances Leos Martinez
Director
512-374-2710
Frances Leos Martinez is an attorney specializing in Community Development. A
1990 graduate of Stanford Law School, where she was a member of the Law
Review, she served as a law clerk to Judge Filemon B. Vela, U.S. District
Judge for the Southern District of Texas prior to being awarded a Skadden
Fellowship to work in the Colonias Project of Texas Rural Legal Aid in 1992.
In 1995, Frances founded the Community Development Clinic of St. Mary’s
University Law School in San Antonio, teaching and supervising students in
transactional cases for non-profit clients in South Texas. In 2001, Frances
moved to Austin to work for McAuley Institute providing technical assistance
and loan assistance to community development corporations in the Texas-Region
and helping to design a Women’s Leadership Institute. She came to Texas C-BAR
in 2004.
D'Ann Johnson
Legal Services Director
512-374-2760
D'Ann has more than twenty years of legal experience in the areas of nonprofit
management, banking policy, and the development of legal resources and
training programs. An honors graduate of the University of Texas School of
Law, D'Ann's prior work experience includes serving as legal counsel to state
and local governmental entities and a nonprofit membership association of
attorneys. She is a graduate of Leadership America, a Friar, and a founding
board member of a pro bono legal program for immigrants. D'Ann is responsible
for coordinating C-BAR's work with community-based nonprofits in rural
communities. She also oversees the development of our on-line resource center
and legal workshops.
Vanessa L. Johnson
Staff Attorney
(713) 228-0735 ext. 153
Fax: (713) 228-5826
Vanessa L. Johnson is the staff attorney responsible for coordinating C-BAR’s
work in the Houston and Dallas areas. She obtained a B.S. in Management, cum
laude, at Tulane University and a MBA at New York University’s Stern School of
Business. A 2006 graduate of the University of Houston Law Center, her
professional experience includes previous work in sales, marketing, human
resources, and law with several Fortune 500 corporations and Houston law
firms. She developed an interest in community development while participating
in the University of Houston’s Bauer Economic Development Program as an intern
at Avenue CDC, a Texas C-Bar client.
Andrea Beleno
LAMP attorney
512-374-2713
Hailing from Houston, Texas, Andrea Beleno is an attorney with Texas RioGrande
Legal Aid's Legal Assistance to Microenterprises Project (LAMP). She obtained
her A.B. cum laude at Harvard University in 1998, and her J.D. at the
University of Texas School of Law in 2003. She has been an attorney at Texas
RioGrande Legal Aid since 2003. In her work for LAMP, Andrea has traveled
throughout Texas RioGrande Legal Aid's service area to present on legal issues
relevant to entrepreneurs and to microenterprise practitioners. She also
provides direct legal representation to microentrepreneurs for transactional
matters, as well as facilitating the referral of cases appropriate for pro
bono representation.
Rebecca Kuipers
Operations Coordinator
512-374-2712
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