AMBER MALTBIE
Northern California
Amber Maltbie is a political attorney with Nossaman, LLP, specializing in campaign finance compliance and disclosure, election administration, and governmental ethics. Amber also specializes in the intersection between U.S. and international election law, gender issues, and women’s political participation. She serves as campaign counsel to candidates, PACs, and ballot measures. Amber has been widely recognized as a leading expert in gender and elections, and her work on women’s voting rights in emerging democracies has been cited in United Nations Development Programme reports and published by international NGOs. In addition to her scholarly work on women’s voting rights, Amber has worked with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems in North Mitrovica, Kosovo during Kosovo’s first Parliamentary elections in 2010.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Amber worked for Congresswoman Barbara Lee as a district aide and political advisor, including managing her contested 2002 re-election campaign after the Congresswoman gave the only “no” vote against authorizing George Bush to wage an unchecked war. Amber also spent two years developing and implementing campaigns to increase voter participation in historically disenfranchised communities in Kentucky, the Cheyenne Reservation in South Dakota, Louisiana, Georgia and New Mexico.
A native of Rockledge, Florida, Amber is currently based in Sacramento, California where she lives with her husband and two pets. Amber is a graduate of Mills College in Oakland and earned her Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.