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Cheryl E. Wilson

Wilson_Cheryl

Cheryl E. Wilson

Senior Associate

Washington DC + 1 202 663 6299

Cheryl Wilson focuses her practice on complex civil litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. Ms. Wilson served as a law clerk for both the Honorable Amit P. Mehta for the US District Court for the District of Columbia and for the Honorable Paul J. Watford of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

While in law school, Ms. Wilson was a legal intern for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in its Voting Rights Project and a Payton Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Prior to law school, she was special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. 

Recognition

  • Named to the High Honor Roll of the 2024 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, UCLA School of Law, 2021

      Order of the Coif

    • BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017

      with highest honors

  • Admissions

    • California

    • District of Columbia

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Amit P. Mehta, US District Court for the District of Columbia, 2022 - 2023

    • The Hon. Paul J. Watford, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2021 - 2022

Credentials

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