# Marcella Burke **Marcella Burke** is a Houston attorney and co-founder of [[Burke Law Group]]. She served in the first Trump administration as a lawyer at the [[EPA]] and the [[Department of the Interior]]. Her firm's Trump-administration ties became the central objection to the **$150 million no-bid contract** the [[Department of Health and Human Services]] moved to award it in August 2026 for the legal representation of unaccompanied migrant children — a revolving-door case in the [[Spending Gap - Legal Representation vs. the $150M No-Bid Award to a Two-Immigration-Lawyer Firm]] card. ## Related [[Burke Law Group]] · [[The Spending Gap]] · [[Revolving Door]]