Meagan Hassan
Meagan Hassan joined Sico Hoelscher Harris in February 2025 at the Houston office. Meagan Hassan served as an associate justice on Texas’s Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston from January 1, 2019, until December 31, 2024. Before her election in 2018, she was a partner at a small constitutional rights law firm where she secured two clearly established constitutional rights at the Fifth Circuit (to film police officers and to pre-compliance review of Texas Medical Board subpoenas to doctors), received the Texas Civil Rights Project’s pro bono award for a § 1983 jail death case, and was inducted into Texas Lawyers’ “Verdicts Hall of Fame” for obtaining the largest jury verdict in history at the time in a cyber-defamation case. She also won significant victories for her clients in cases involving the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, anti-SLAPP, and in administrative actions against seven different federal and state agencies.
Justice Hassan regularly teaches CLEs on wide-ranging topics including AI in the practice of law, civil rights, piercing grand jury secrecy, and general appellate practice. She has guest lectured concerning defamation law, police practices, free speech, mandamus and permissive appeals, and negotiations practice at the University of Houston Law Center, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, and South Texas College of Law. She earned a Certificate in Law and AI from the Berkeley Law Artificial Intelligence Institute in 2023.
Justice Hassan is admitted to practice in the state courts of Texas, New York, and Maryland, as well as United States District Courts of Texas in the Western, Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts; the District of Maryland; the District of the District of Columbia; the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; and the United States Supreme Court.
Education
- Rutgers University, B.A., magna cum laude, (New Brunswick, NJ)
- Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D., (Philadelphia, PA)