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Dakota C. Foster

Foster_Dakota

Dakota C. Foster

Associate

Washington DC + 1 202 663 6087

Dakota Foster counsels clients on a range of national security, cybersecurity and criminal enforcement matters. She also conducts complex internal and government-facing investigations. Ms. Foster maintains an active pro bono practice, focused on criminal appeals and trial-level criminal litigation.  

Before joining WilmerHale, Ms. Foster clerked for Judge Eric D. Miller of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Ms. Foster previously served as an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency and as a research analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology. During law school, she interned in the US Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Counterterrorism Section and in the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.

Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Stanford Law School, 2023

      Knight-Hennessy Scholar

      Highest Pro Bono Honors

      Co-Editor-in-Chief, Stanford Law & Policy Review

    • MSc, Global Governance and Diplomacy, Oxford University, 2020

      With Merit

    • MA, War Studies, King's College, 2019

      With Distinction

    • BA, Political Science, Amherst College, 2018

      summa cum laude

      Phi Beta Kappa

      Marshall Scholarship

      Truman Scholarship

  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

    • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam Jr., US District Court for the Northern District of California, 2024 - 2025

    • The Hon. Eric D. Miller, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2023 - 2024

Credentials

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