Q&A with Lobbyist Amy Bresnen

Amy Bresnen began working at the Texas Capitol in the 2000s as a grunt in the army of college-age students that runs on Red Bull and ambition to complete the behind-the-scenes work critical to each session.

She stayed around — with detours to grad school and law school — to build a lobby practice with her husband, Steve Bresnen, a former civil rights lawyer and top aide to Bob Bullock in the comptroller and lieutenant governor’s offices. BresnenAssociates is ranked in the top tier of lobby shops with clients including AT&T, the Texas Family Law Foundation and Texas Trial Lawyers Association.