Meet The Team

As CCJ’s chief policy counsel, Marc A. Levin co-leads the Centering Justice initiative and supports multiple other workstreams and initiatives. Widely respected across the political spectrum, he played a key role for the Council in developing a set of landmark bipartisan principles on criminal justice policy embraced by 14 leading organizations on the left and right.

Earlier in his career, Levin worked for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, launching its criminal justice program in 2005 and, in 2010, developing the concept for the foundation’s influential Right on Crime initiative. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Will Garwood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and as a staff attorney at the Texas Supreme Court.

Levin has authored hundreds of publications and articles on criminal justice policy and has testified multiple times before Congress and state legislatures. He speaks frequently with the media on national criminal justice trends and has presented his ideas in meetings with U.S. presidents, House speakers, and the Justice Committee of the United Kingdom Parliament. In 2023, Levin was invited by the U.S. State Department to visit Uruguay to present on criminal justice policy before the nation’s vice president and other leaders, and he has conducted similar meetings with policymakers in Australia. Among other professional honors, he was recognized by the Texas House of Representatives with a 2007 resolution noting his “indispensable contributions” to state juvenile and criminal justice reforms.

Levin serves on the American Legislative Exchange Council Judiciary Task Force, the Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Initiative Advisory Council, the Urban Rural Action Board of Directors, the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group, the Corrections News Editorial Advisory Board,  the University of Texas/Lyndon B. Johnson School’s Prison and Jail Innovation Lab Advisory Committee, The Marshall Project Advisory Board, and the Caruth Police Institute Advisory Board.

He graduated with honors from the University of Texas with a BA in Plan II Honors and Government and earned his JD with honors from the University of Texas School of Law.