Alexa advocates for liberty. Applying her significant experience in all stages of litigation, including representing clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, Alexa represents individuals and businesses against the most well-funded and powerful opposition: the government.

Alexa earned her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University, where she double majored in political science and Russian. She then earned her J.D. as an evening student at Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the Senior Notes Editor for the American Criminal Law Review. During the day, Alexa was the Program Manager for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.

After graduation, Alexa began her career practicing high-stakes civil litigation at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where she developed invaluable skills in how to build, and tirelessly pursue, every case. Following a couple of years in private practice, Alexa had the distinct privilege of clerking for the Honorable D. Michael Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the liberty-loving Honorable Don R. Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. It was during her clerkship with Judge Willett that Alexa first began working with fellow Cobb & Johns attorney Michael Cotton, developing a life-long friendship and ability to work together to solve even the most complicated legal questions.

Motivated by the barriers to government accountability that Alexa witnessed during her clerkships, she joined the Institute for Justice in 2020, where she helped her clients defend their constitutional rights, including property rights, freedom of speech, economic liberty, and due process. While at the Institute for Justice, Alexa also developed an expertise in the many immunity doctrines that too-often close the courthouse doors to victims of government abuse before their cases begin. She used this expertise to design cases capable of breaking down these barriers to entry and to encourage the courts—both through direct litigation and amicus advocacy—to more faithfully apply the Constitution in favor of accountability.

Although she loved her practice, Alexa temporarily entered academia to further develop the Georgetown Center for the Constitution as its Executive Director, where, in addition to overseeing the organization’s operations and developing tools to better educate students, practitioners, and the courts on the original meaning of the Constitution, she represented clients as amicus curiae before the U.S. Supreme Court and regularly provided her expertise on constitutional interpretation. Alexa’s writings on constitutional law have been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and she’s a regular guest on legal podcasts and radio shows.

In 2023, Alexa was awarded an exclusive scholarship to attend the National Trial College, an advanced trial advocacy program at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she completed intensive training on trial practice. Alexa continues to build on the skills she has learned over the years through full-throated advocacy for her clients at both trial and on appeal. She has a genuine love for the law and is passionate about representing her clients and important causes.

Alexa is licensed to practice law in New York, the District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania, and she is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits, and the numerous federal district courts across the county. Her application to practice law in Texas is currently pending.

Alexa is unconditionally supported by her wonderful husband, Bryan Wigginton, who owns and manages an indoor pickleball facility—”the fastest growing sport in America.”