Born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1977, Ms. Mares was raised in Niagara Falls, New York and Sour Lake, Texas.  Ms Mares attended the University of Texas at Austin where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1999 with a sociology major and a government minor.  She received her joint degree in 2006, earning a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Prior to her legal career, Ms. Mares worked as an Elections Coordinator for the Travis County Clerk’s Office and as an Assistant Committee Clerk for the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence of the Texas State Legislature.  During the joint degree program, she was a policy intern for the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, as well as a law clerk for the North Carolina Department of Justice, the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the Charlotte City Attorney’s Office.

Bar Admissions:

State Bar of North Carolina; State Bar of Texas

Legal Employment History:

Assistant Special Counsel to Attorney General Roy Cooper of the North Carolina Department of Justice – May 2006 to October 2008; Taylor, Olson, Adkins, Sralla & Elam, L.L.P. – October 2008 to present (associate).

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