Mara Zimmerman

Mara focuses primarily on secret court and prior restraint cases. Mara graduated from Vanderbilt University

Law School, where she served as an executive editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law,

published her student note, received the G. Scott Briggs Transnational Legal Studies Award, and completed

legal internships at the American Bar Association, the Southern Environmental Law Center, and the

White House Counsel’s office. Mara also attended Rhodes College, where she wrote for the student

newspaper, The Sou’wester. Before coming to the Reporters Committee, Mara practiced law

at a large firm in Washington, DC.