Tanya Marie Neiman (June 28, 1949 – February 27, 2006)[1] was an American lawyer and activist based in San Francisco.
[2] She helped to found the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, the Domestic Violence Consortium, and the Eviction Defense Collaborative.
[2][9] Neiman was honored by the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) in 1996 with their Kutak-Dodds Prize.
Just before she died in 2006, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.
In the 1970s, she had a longterm relationship with Mary Carolyn Morgan, who became the first openly lesbian judge in the United States in 1981, when she was appointed to the San Francisco Municipal Court by Governor Jerry Brown.