Attorney Profile

AMY ALLEN

Assistant City Attorney

Community Advocacy Division

Offender Reentry Community Prosecutor

Amy joined the Dallas City Attorney's Office in April 2006. Her practice focuses on previously incarceration people and their return to the City of Dallas.  She uses creative legal strategies to reducing crimes by assisting these citizens in making a successful transition. The major goals are to build meaningful partnerships, to proactively and creatively solve reentry-based problems; and to monitor the progress of the participants in the Anti-Gang Reentry Court Docket.

Education

• University of Houston, Bates School of Law
  J.D., May 1991

• Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA
  Bachelor of Science, Dec 1987

Affiliations & Activities

• Admitted to the State Bar of Texas, Nov 1991
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Pro Bono College of State Bar of Texas
• Member, North Texas Crime Commission
• Member, US Attorney Gang Task Force –Northern District TX
• Board Member, King's Children's Home

Publications & Presentations

• Opening Plenary Speaker – Transition of Prisoners Conference Dallas, Texas October 2006
• POWER Camp speaker – Offender Employment Conference Dallas, Texas  January 2007