About me
Stephanie Medellin is the staff attorney for the Family Law Clinic at the Center for Legal and Social Justice at St. Mary’s University School of Law. Stephanie represents clients in divorce, adoption, name change, and probate cases in court. She also co-teaches clinic seminar classes and assists with the supervision of clinic student attorneys. Additionally, Stephanie teaches both JD- and master's-level law courses in trauma-informed advocacy, interpersonal violence, and domestic violence trial skills.
Before being a staff attorney, Stephanie served as the Law School’s Director of Pro Bono Programs, where she oversaw the implementation of the service graduation requirement for JD students at St. Mary’s Law, and was the supervising attorney for the Identification Recovery Program, a law student-powered outreach effort at Haven for Hope, San Antonio’s largest homeless services provider.
Prior to joining St. Mary’s, Stephanie was a legal aid attorney and the director of the Legal Aid for Survivors of Sexual Assault (LASSA) Project with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she primarily represented survivors of domestic and sexual violence in divorce, custody, and protective order cases, but also represented clients in education cases from elementary school to college and transgender and nonbinary clients in name and gender marker corrections. She was also the shelter attorney for The Purple Door, the Coastal Bend's domestic violence shelter, taking direct referrals regarding clients in shelter or receiving shelter services who need legal assistance, and represented the shelter and staff to quash subpoenas or find alternatives to protect survivor privacy.
She is a first-generation college graduate who received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and biomedical science and a master’s degree in counseling from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi.
