Empowering Texas Communities

He is an attorney, community lawyer, and trained mediator. Building structures for community cooperation and the consensus is among his longtime interests, and community education is his passion. Graduating in 1974 from Dallas Community College, Tim returned to Austin in 1975, completing a degree in humanities from the University of Texas in 1978. His journalism skills won him a number of national

awards for articles written in the Texas Observer about taxing and bank-holding companies. Tim’s attendance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs resulted in his 1982 master’s thesis, A Case Study of Decentralized Power Systems and Municipal Politics, Austin, Texas, from 1979 to 1981. Entering the South Texas College of Law in 1989, he received his J.D. in 1991, with coursework at the University of Texas School of Law. He was licensed to practice law in Texas in 1992. Tim is a community builder with over 20 years of legal experience. A resident of the Mueller development, Tim owns and operates a successful law firm located in the heart of South Austin, on South First Street. It is not uncommon for him to choose his bicycle over the driving commute down 1-35. Mahoney's practice focuses on a range of civil, administrative and family litigation, providing legal services through private contacts, pre-paid legal insurance programs, and Court-appointments. For the last few years, Tim has worked with other community leaders to find ways to empower local communities. That continuing effort has included organizing neighborhood-based capacity-building training programs, including the 2007 Neighborhood Planning Conference at Austin Community College’s Eastview Campus. (See www.neighboraustin.com for more information.). Tim is especially proud of the ACC Board’s adoption in 2014 of a modified Policy B-7 which is an effort to build interactive community relationships with the ACC Board, and potentially build better policy. See http://www.austincc.edu/board/policies/b7.php. Tim and his wife, Melanie, have been married since 1989. Between them, they have four children. The two eldest are married; one lives in Austin, and the other in Ashville, North Carolina. All the children have attended AISD schools, and the two youngest pursuing completing their college educations.