Linda Singer | |
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12th Attorney General for the District of Columbia | |
In office January 2, 2007 –January 5, 2008 | |
Preceded by | Robert Spagnoletti |
Succeeded by | Peter Nickles |
Personal details | |
Born | Cleveland,Ohio,U.S. | September 14,1966
Education | Harvard University (BA,JD) |
Linda Singer (born September 14,1966) is an American attorney who served as attorney general of the District of Columbia from January 2,2007 to January 5,2008, [1] and developed initiatives against gun violence. [2]
Singer was born in Cleveland,Ohio. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1988 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1991. As a law student,she was a leader of student protests against discrimination in law school faculty hiring. [3] [4]
She was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York's Criminal Defense Division. She became the executive director of the Appleseed Foundation,and served in this post for 13 years. [5]
She became a partner with Cohen Milstein in New York in 2009. [6]
In 2017,Singer joined Motley Rice to grow the firm's public client practice. [7]