Mary Hernandez

Mary T. Hernandez is a founding partner of GCR, LLP.  Ms. Hernandez received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1988 and her B.A., magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University in 1985.  Hernandez heads GCR’s San Francisco Bay Area offices and serves as legal counsel to school, county and community college districts as well as nonprofit organizations and charter schools throughout California in matters relating to board governance, ethics, labor and employment, contracts, student equity,  education policy and legislative advocacy matters.Ms. Hernandez served as President of the Hispanic National Bar Association in 1994-1995.  She was elected to the San Francisco Board of Education in 1996 and 2000, and served as Vice President in 1999 and President in 2000.  She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Youth Law Center and a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Commission on the Status of Latinas in the Legal Profession.