Michael Nunez

Position: Senior Staff Attorney
Attorneys, Past Fellows

Michael Nunez is a Senior Staff Attorney at Disability Rights Advocates. He first joined Disability Rights Advocates in 2011 as its first Wolinsky Fellow and became a staff attorney in 2013. From 2015 through May 2025, he practiced at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, a leading civil rights law firm in San Francisco where he represented classes of incarcerated people with disabilities and litigated other civil rights cases on behalf of people with disabilities and other historically marginalized groups. At RBGG, he received a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award in 2018 for his work on voting rights for people with disabilities, and he was selected as a Super Lawyers rising star every year from 2016 through 2021.

Mr. Nunez has served on the Board of Directors for the Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired of San Francisco and as an officer for the Disability Rights Bar Association. Mr. Nunez received his B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2006 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2011.

Bar and Court Admissions:

1. State Bar of California
2. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
3. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
4. U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
5. U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
6. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
7. U.S. Supreme Court