Diane Umstead
2023 ALI Partner

Diane Umstead brings to ALI experience in public finance and policy, water and municipal law, and grassroots organizing and advocacy. As an attorney with two of the largest law firms in Texas, her expertise in creating, financing, and advising boards of municipal utility districts led to her gubernatorial appointments to the Texas Water Development Board, where she was the first-ever female appointee, and the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program Policy Committee. Diane served on the advisory board of the Friends of Tent of Nations North America and works with interfaith organizations on efforts to support the Palestinian people.

Diane joins her husband, Rex VanMiddlesworth, as an Advanced Leadership Initiative Partner.