![]() ![]() Among the matters she handled there, Clarke led the Attorney General’s successful suit against Rennselear County’s use of limited early voting polling locations, in which a judge found that the locations chosen would not lead to equitable access to the polls. Since 2019, Clarke has been with the New York Attorney General’s Office. During this time, Clarke represented Stephanie Rosenfeld, a Brooklyn prosecutor who alleged that her colleagues illegally wiretapped her cellphone. įrom 2016 to 2019, Clarke was at the Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady. ![]() See Howard Fischer, Court Upholds Ruling Colorado City Abused Power, Arizona Capitol Times, Aug. The trial ended with a verdict for the government, which was upheld on appeal. Lawyers for the town accused the government of discriminating against an unpopular religion. See Fernanda Santos, Town on Trial in Complaints of Bias Against Sect Outsiders, N.Y. Notably, Clarke was trial counsel for the government in prosecuting the towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, for discriminating in housing against individuals who were not members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Department of Justice, where she worked on the Housing & Civil Enforcement Division. Clarke was recommended by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Septemand was nominated on December 15, 2021.Ĭlarke started her post-clerkship career at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. ![]() District Court for the Southern District of New York to a seat vacated by Judge Colleen McMahon, who took senior status on April 21, 2021. In 2019, Clarke joined the New York Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau as Chief, where she currently works.Ĭlarke has been tapped for a seat on the U.S. In 2016, Clarke left to join the civil rights firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady. Clarke then joined the Department of Justice, working in the Civil Rights Division during the Obama Administration. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2008.Īfter graduating, Clarke clerked for Judge Solomon Oliver on the U.S. The 38 year old Clarke gained her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in 2005 and then gained a J.D. Civil rights attorney Jessica Clarke, currently with the New York Attorney General’s Office, is President Biden’s second nomination to the Southern District of New York. ![]()
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