Jolie Houston practices in the areas of land use and municipal law. She joined Berliner Cohen in 1998. Ms. Houston represents private land use clients in a wide variety of land use and regulatory approvals.
Since December 2019 Ms. Houston has been serving as the City Attorney for the City of Los Altos.
From August 2016 until October 2018, Ms. Houston served as the Interim City Attorney for the City of Merced. She has been serving as the Assistant City Attorney for Gilroy for 24 years. She also served as the City Attorney for Los Altos for 13 years and District Counsel for the Sanitary District No. 1 of Marin County for four years, and was formerly the Deputy City Attorney for the City of Santa Clara.