Linda Nellene Coffee (born December 25, 1942)[1] is an American lawyer living in Dallas, Texas.

Coffee is best known, along with Sarah Weddington, for arguing the precedent-setting United States Supreme Court case Roe v.

[6] Coffee was also a clerk for Sarah Hughes, who was a federal judge in Texas.

[7] The challenged Texas law only permitted abortion only if it was medically necessary to save the life of the woman.

[9] Reacting to the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, she lamented the prospect of Roe being overturned.