Christy Lea

Christy Lea serves as Co-Chair of the Pro Bono Committee at the Orange County Bar Association since January 2024 and has been a Litigation Partner and Patent Attorney at Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP since September 2000. Christy also held the position of President of the Board of Directors at the Public Law Center from January to December 2022 and served as an Advisory Board Member for the School of Engineering at the University of Mississippi from September 2011 to September 2016. Christy earned a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Texas at Austin between 1997 and 2000 after obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mississippi, completed in 1997.