About Member
Anne Burnham is an Assistant Public Defender with the Harris County Public Defender’s Office in the Appellate Division. Before joining the HCPD in 2023, she served as a Clinical Professor of Law in the St. Mary’s University School of Law’s Criminal Justice Clinic, where she taught and practiced criminal defense. Prior to this, she was an Associate Attorney with the San Antonio law firm of Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, now Goldstein & Orr. She has much experience practicing criminal defense at the trial, appellate and post-conviction levels and spent several years serving as a briefing attorney for Judge Charlie Baird on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and Chief Justice David Chew on the Eighth Judicial Court of Appeals in El Paso. She writes and speaks on various topics related to criminal and constitutional law. She has been a member of TCDLA since 1999, serves on the TCDLA Board of Directors, is an Associate Editor of The Voice for The Defense, a committee chair of TCDLA’s Law Student Committee and member of the Indigent Defense and Nexxus Committees.