Therese Stewart is Chief Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Franscisco. In this capacity, she defended Mayor Gavin Newsom’s order authorizing same-sex unions at City Hall in In Re Marriage Cases. Prior to joining the city attorneys office, she was a litigation partner at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin.
Ms. Stewart has represented parties and amici in LGBT civil rights cases, including the airlines’ challenge to San Francisco’s Equal Benefits Ordinance, a lesbian police officer discrimination suit against the City of Sacramento, an early equal protection challenge to the State’s denial of equal benefits to partners of lesbian and gay employees, and the High Tech Gays case challenging the Defense Department’s denial of security clearances to lesbians and gay men.
Ms. Stewart served as the first openly gay President of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF)as well as the first first Co-Chair of the BASF Committee on Sexual Orientation, which developed guidelines for legal employers on eliminating sexual orientation discrimination. She also co-founded BASF’s School-To-College Program, which provides mentoring and guidance to inner city high school students to help them prepare for, select, and apply to college.
Therese Stewart is the co-author, along with Mollie M. Lee of The Role of Public Law Offices in Marriage Equality Litigation.
N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change 
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