Maggie Marshall

Maggie Marshall is a Staff Attorney for the Criminal Justice Program at the Animal Legal Defense Fund. In her role, she assists with active criminal cases, working directly with key stakeholders in the criminal justice system, and utilizing creative avenues, like private criminal complaints, to seek justice for animals.

Before joining ALDF, Maggie served as an Assistant Prosecutor in Wexford County, Michigan, where she handled all of the animal crime cases in the county. She later served as Legal Advocacy Counsel at Animal Equality, where she oversaw litigation and legislative efforts to defeat the exploitive maltreatment of animals in industrial agriculture.
Maggie earned her J.D. from Michigan State University where she was actively involved in the Animal Legal Defense Fund student chapter and served as a student attorney in the Animal Welfare Clinic. She also served as Articles Editor for the Michigan State International Law Review.

Maggie has written and presented extensively on animal law and animal protection issues, with a particular focus on farmed animals. Her work includes authoring the article Farmed and Forgotten: Farmed Animals and the Gaps in Animal Protection Laws and presenting at the 2026 International Veterinary Forensic Sciences Association Annual Conference on the role of veterinary expertise in farmed animal cases. She has also presented to legal, veterinary, and animal advocacy audiences on the use of private criminal complaints as a tool for pursuing accountability in animal cruelty cases.

Maggie lives in Plymouth, Michigan, with her husband and their rescue pup, Manny. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, reading, hiking, watching scary movies, and listening to true crime podcasts.