Alexandra Mannix

In 2025, The Irving Law Firm proudly welcomed Alexandra Mannix to the firm. She focuses primarily on criminal defense, representing both retained clients and court-appointed indigent defense clients.

Before joining the firm, Alexandra served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Julia A. Minner at the Circuit Court for Frederick County in Frederick, Maryland. During law school, she earned her Third Year Practice Certificate and completed internships in the Loudoun County Circuit Court Chambers and the Arlington County Circuit Court Chambers. These experiences gave her direct exposure to judges and law clerks in three different courthouses. This provided her with a strong understanding of judicial expectations and the foundations of successful courtroom advocacy. Her responsibilities included drafting legal memoranda on complex issues, reviewing Presentence Investigation Reports and summarizing defendants’ backgrounds for sentencing hearings, and confirming statutory compliance of case files before Final Divorce Decrees were entered.

Alexandra’s interest in the judicial system and her commitment to fairness are reflected in her published academic work. In 2023, she co-authored a chapter in the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Political Systems. The chapter featured original research examining correlations between judges’ gender, race, and partisanship and their verdicts, appeals, and reversals. To support this study, she helped compile a complete dataset of every trial judge in the state of Alabama, creating information that had not previously existed for scholarly review.

Alexandra is originally from Flemington, New Jersey. She graduated summa cum laude from The College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She then attended the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, where she was a member of the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy.