Stephen S. Mims, J.D.
Executive Director
Houston, Dallas and Austin

713-439-0911

Steve specializes in senior level, retained legal search. He received his B.A. degree from Tulane University and both a M.A. degree in Economics and a J.D. degree (1974) from Southern Methodist University, where he was elected to the Order of the Barristers and the Southwestern Law Journal (Publications Editor, 1973-1974). He practiced general corporate law for 10 years, both in private practice and as a senior counsel with a Fortune 100 corporation, before entering the search industry with Prescott in 1984. Steve later served as vice president of two of the largest U.S. executive search firms prior to forming Mims & Associates, a retained attorney search firm, in 1991. He has additional, senior level search experience with assignments in non-legal functional areas, including finance, human resources, sales and marketing, engineering, information technology and general management. Steve has been a Houston legal recruiter since 1984.

Marguerite Johnson, J.D.
Senior Attorney Search Director

713-439-0911

Marguerite received a Political Science degree from The University of Texas in 1998 and received her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 2001. Upon her graduation, Marguerite joined the highly-regarded Houston litigation boutique of Powers & Frost. She subsequently moved to Coats, Rose, Yale, Ryman & Lee, where she continued her complex litigation practice until January of 2007. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, and the Houston Young Lawyers Association.

Marguerite's primary focus is on permanent attorney recruiting for corporations and law firms in the Houston area.

Mark Prescott
Senior Attorney Search Director

713-552-2915

Mark Prescott received his B.S. degree in 1997 from Vanderbilt University. After graduating, Mark lived in Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina where he became fluent in Spanish and worked for Internet Securities, a Boston-based provider of emerging markets financial information. Upon returning home to Texas in 2000, Mark joined Korn/Ferry International's Houston office and became part of its Energy practice. He spent nearly five years with Korn/Ferry, conducting over 60 searches in the Consumer, Energy, Healthcare, Industrial and Technology practices. In 2005 Mark joined AT Kearney's Washington, D.C. office and its Higher Education and Life Sciences practices. With nearly six years of executive search experience, Mark joined Prescott in 2006. His primary focus is on national in-house attorney search and serving as a member of Prescott's national energy team.

Electra T. Harelson
Senior Placement Director

214-210-2930

Electra Harelson received her B.A., cum laude, from Duke University in 1986. Before joining Prescott, Electra spent twelve years as a recruiting coordinator in Dallas, first with Locke Purnell (now Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell), then with Vinson & Elkins, where she handled recruiting and client services. She also started her own executive career consulting firm. Electra is a past officer of the Recruiting Administrators of Dallas. A Dallas legal recruiter since 2000, Electra is responsible for the permanent and contract placement of both attorneys and paralegals.

Anne E. Hutchinson, J.D.
Attorney Search Director

214-210-2954

Anne Hutchinson received her B.A., cum laude, in 1997 from Southern Methodist University and earned her J.D. degree in 2005 from the University of Houston. She practiced as a litigation associate with a law firm in Phoenix, Arizona until joining Prescott in 2011. Prior to her legal training, Anne served as Senior Corporate Recruiter with a Fortune 500 company in Dallas. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of Arizona. Anne's focus is on in-house and law firm attorney searches.

Mark Prescott
Senior Attorney Search Director

214-210-2955

Mark works out of both our Houston and Dallas offices. See his bio above.

Stephen S. Mims, J.D.
Executive Director
Houston, Dallas and Austin

713-439-0911

Steve works out of our Houston, Austin and Dallas offices. See his bio above.

Stephen S. Mims, J.D.
Executive Director
Houston, Dallas and Austin

713-439-0911

Steve works out of our Houston, Austin and Dallas offices. See his bio above.