Trevor W. Ezell

Trevor serves as Deputy General Counsel to Governor Greg Abbott. In that role he provides strategic counseling to the State’s Chief Executive Officer on a range of issues under both state and federal law, including litigation involving the Governor.

Before returning to Texas, Trevor worked in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area. At Clement & Murphy, he focused on complex litigation in federal and state courts—from deposing key witnesses before trial to briefing legal issues on appeal—in disputes that presented constitutional law, regulatory, products liability, and contracts issues.

Trevor has also spent years in government service. He previously served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas, where he represented clients before every level of the United States and Texas judiciaries in a range of areas spanning election law, state sovereign immunity, federal preemption, criminal procedure, and the Establishment Clause. And he has clerked for federal judges on the Fifth Circuit, the Sixth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

For several years, Trevor taught as an adjunct professor a 2-credit course on the writ of habeas corpus, with course material covering the Suspension Clause, wartime detention, immigration, and post-conviction review.