Transgender attorney Stephanie Mueller, 70, puts on busty display in skintight outfit during court hearing
A 70-year-old transgender attorney is turning heads in a Washington state courtroom after she showed up in a highly questionable outfit to defend a client.
Stephanie Mueller appeared before a Seattle court Thursday, sporting a low-cut blue top that accentuated the lawyer’s surgically enhanced breasts, Seattle journalist Jonathan Choe shared in a video posted to X (formally Twitter).
Matching the top with skin-tight black leather pants and boots, Mueller also wore an excessive amount of makeup, including dark green eyeshadow and flamboyant fake lashes as she represented “one of the far-left activists charged with disrupting a council meeting in February,” according to Choe.
Mueller’s client, Iris Boardman, is charged with first-degree criminal trespassing.
The public defender shared that her client, despite being caught on video protesting at the meeting, is “innocent, of course.”
“My client has pleaded not guilty and she is not guilty — how about that?” Mueller told Choe outside the courtroom following the hearing.
Mueller has been a career public defender for over 20 years and says she may be “the only openly transgendered woman trial attorney in Washington state,” according to a 2016 crowdfunding page titled “Stephanie’s Public Defense Fund.”
“Since I came out as an openly transgendered attorney I bring diversity to the practice of a law and I am a role model for the transgendered community,” Mueller wrote in the post.
“Additionally, I am also a distinctive and active voice for the civil rights of all with a particular awareness for transgender rights.”
The page, which has since stopped accepting donations, was set up to raise money for the public defender to buy an “economical car” so she could continue her work as a lawyer.
The City of Seattle mandated “respectful business or office attire” during courtroom appearances.
While the lawyer’s appearance may seem to some distracting and inappropriate for the courtroom, Mueller — who transitioned in 2012 — claims that since then, she has been “treated with complete respect and great acceptance,” the Daily Mail reported.
