Zina Bash

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Zina Bash
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Born
Zina Linda Gelman

Monterrey, Mexico
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(m. 2007)​
[1]
Education Harvard University (AB, JD)
Wharton School (MBA)

Zina Gelman Bash is an American attorney who was a senior counsel to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2018.

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Background and education

Bash is the daughter of Lawrence Gelman, an anesthesiologist and hospital executive. [1] She was born in Monterrey, Mexico and raised in McAllen, Texas. [2]

She is Catholic, although she also has Jewish ancestry. [3] Her father is the descendant of Holocaust survivors, while her mother is of Mexican descent. [4]

In 2004, Bash received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where she served on the Undergraduate Council Election Commission. [5] In 2007, she graduated with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review . [6] [7] She also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. [8]

Personal life

In 2007, she married John Bash, who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas from 2017 to 2020. [1]

Career

Bash clerked for Brett Kavanaugh, then judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and afterward for justice Samuel Alito of the United States Supreme Court during the 2013–14 term.

She has practiced law as an appellate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and was executive vice president of operations and business development at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas. [9]

She served as deputy director of Policy and Communications for U. S. Senator Ted Cruz’s 2016 Presidential campaign and Senior Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee in U.S. Senator John Cornyn’s office. [10] [11] [12] [13]

In 2017, Bash served in the Trump administration as Special Assistant to the President for regulatory reform, legal and immigration policy on the Domestic Policy Council. [14] [15] [16] [17] Prior to Trump taking office, she served on his agency landing team for the Department of Justice. [18] [19] In July 2018, she was named senior counsel on the executive leadership team of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but had left by August to assist Judge Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination hearing before the Senate. [8] [20]

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  8. 1 2 "AG Paxton Names Former Supreme Court Clerk Zina Bash Senior Counsel on His Executive Leadership Team". July 3, 2018. Archived from the original on September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
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  10. ↑ "Patent Reform Act of 2011, U.S. Senate". Congressional Record, 112th Congress, 1st Session. 157 (34): S1360–S1394. March 8, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2018. Among the Senate staff who have played a role with regard to this bill are...Zina Bash of Senator Cornyn's staff.
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