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US President-elect Donald Trump on 9th December named Indian American lawyer Harmeet K Dhillon as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. Dhillon is the fourth Indian-American to be nominated in the Trump 2.0 Cabinet after Dr Jay Bhattacharya (National Institutes of Health (NIH)), Vivek Ramaswamy (Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)) and Kashyap 'Kash' Patel (Director of FBI).
ALL ABOUT HARMEET DHILLON:
📍Born on April 2, 1969, in Chandigarh, Dhillon moved to the US with her family at the age of two and grew up in a Sikh household in rural North Carolina. She later moved to New York City.
📍Dhillon graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Classical Studies and English, and then earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a member of the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review.
📍She began her career as a law clerk for Judge Paul V Niemeyer of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and later worked in the Constitutional Torts Section of the Department of Justice, Civil Division. She then joined the prestigious law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she gained experience in complex civil litigation, constitutional law, and appellate practice.
📍After a decade at international law firms in New York, London, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco, Dhillon founded her own law firm, Dhillon Law Group, in 2006.
📍Dhillon specialises in several key areas of law, including commercial litigation, employment law, First Amendment rights and election law. Her practice also encompasses securities, entertainment, employment discrimination and civil rights matters.
📍She has a niche practice of representing clients in election and campaign law, including general compliance, ethics representation and intellectual property issues related to campaign communications.
IN SHORT:
Harmeet K Dhillon nominated Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
Trump praised her for challenging tech censorship and defending religious freedom
Born in Chandigarh, Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006