Zina Bash

Partner at Keller Lenkner

Zina Bash is a Partner at Keller Postman LLC. She is an experienced lawyer and policy advisor and has served and worked with public institutions at the highest levels of federal and state governments.

Before joining Keller Postman, Zina was Senior Counsel to the Attorney General of Texas, where she helped manage legal policy and strategy for one of the largest state attorney general offices in the country. As part of her duties, Zina advised the Attorney General on whether and where to initiate affirmative litigation, and she participated in matters spanning a range of subjects, including constitutional law, consumer protection, and environmental law.

Zina also developed strategies to build support for the office’s positions across the public and private sectors. She crafted communications plans, built coalitions among states and interest groups, and engaged federal agencies and congressional leaders when appropriate. In addition, Zina counseled state agencies, state officials, and municipalities on critical legal issues. And she was the principal liaison between her office and the offices of other state attorneys general and the U.S. Attorney General.

Zina served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito at the Supreme Court of the United States and for Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard College, her M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was Supreme Court Chair for the Harvard Law Review.

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