Rusty Hardin’s Comments About Marcie:
Marcie grew up in Houston, graduated from Memorial High School, and then attended the University of Texas, where she majored in honors business and accounting. Marcie was one of the few, if not the only, students to graduate from the University of Texas with a perfect 4.0 in accounting. She remained at the University of Texas to receive her master’s in business administration. In 1993, she joined Ernst & Young as a tax associate. Marcie became a certified public accountant in 1994 and was a tax senior when she left Ernst & Young in 1997. After leaving Ernst & Young, she spent six months in the finance group at Continental Airlines. She then moved back to Austin to attend law school at the University of Texas, where she became a member of the Chancellors when she was fourth in her class. Marcie has the distinction of having scored the highest score on the Texas Bar Exam in July 2000. She worked at Baker Botts in Houston for three years, where she specialized in general civil litigation until joining us in July 2003.