Christina Magráns-Tillery, Attorney

City of Knoxville Law Department

Christina Magráns-Tillery is a staff attorney with the City of Knoxville Law Department where her work focuses on litigation and municipal legislation relating to zoning and land use including issues related to the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. She also serves as the advising attorney for the City’s Plans Review and Building Inspections Department and Economic and Community Development. She received her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law and her B.A. in Economics, Spanish, and Latin from Rhodes College in Memphis. During law school, Ms. Magráns-Tillery clerked with the Legal Aid Society in Oak Ridge and became a published member of the University of Tennessee’s Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice. After graduating, Ms. Magráns-Tillery served as the Pro Bono Coordinator for the Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission where she worked to help establish legal resources for low-income Tennesseans statewide. From 2014 to 2018, she was a staff attorney with Legal Aid of East Tennessee where her work focused on housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act and the Violence Against Women Act. For this work, she received the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services New Advocate of the Year Award in 2017. During her time with Legal Aid, she also served as the John L. Attorney for the Mountain View Youth Development Center where she advised the incarcerated youth on a variety of matters including civil rights, due process, and sentencing issues. She has presented on housing law many times to groups including the Knoxville Community Development Corporation, the City of Knoxville, the NAACP, the Tennessee Valley Coalition for the Homeless, the Maryville Housing Authority, the Sevier County Bar Association, and the Blount County Bar Association. Ms. Magráns-Tillery is a member of the Equality Coalition for Housing Opportunities (ECHO) board, the Knoxville Bar Association, and its Diversity Committee. She currently resides in Knoxville with her husband and their four rescue dogs.