Position Title
Visiting Lecturer and Interim Director of the Civil Rights Clinic
Ms. Huang founded Justice First in 2005 as a unique law practice dedicated to public interest law and focused on serving underprivileged communities. Ms. Huang has over 25 years of experience in civil rights law and her areas of practice include prisoner rights litigation, employment discrimination on behalf of workers, and indigent appellate criminal defense. Before starting her own law firm, Ms. Huang worked as a Staff Attorney at Public Advocates, Inc. a non-profit law firm and advocacy organization in San Francisco. She worked there on statewide impact litigation in the areas of educational equity, employment discrimination, community economic development, and transportation equity. She was also an associate for Koob & Magoolaghan, a plaintiff’s civil rights law firm in Manhattan, where she litigated cases in the areas of prisoners’ rights, employment discrimination, and constitutional law.
Throughout her legal career, Ms. Huang has mentored students interested in public interest lawyering. She supervised the legal internship programs at Koob & Magoolaghan and at Public Advocates, Inc. In 2008, Harvard Law School awarded her the Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship, giving her the opportunity to advise Harvard law students about public service legal careers. At Justice First, Ms. Huang founded and supervised the internship and fellowship programs, designed to give meaningful experience and inspiration to students and new attorneys committed to pursuing a legal career in public service.
From 2018-2021, Ms. Huang taught as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, nationally recognized as one of the most diverse law schools in the country. Ms. Huang graduated from New York University School of Law in 1996 and was awarded the Moncrieffe Convocation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Racism & the Law. She served as a judicial clerk for the Supreme Court of Minnesota, followed by a federal clerkship with the Honorable Michael Davis in the District of Minnesota. In 2019, the Eastern District of California awarded her the Joe Ramsey Award for Excellence for her pro bono legal services to prisoners in federal civil rights cases. Northern California Super Lawyers has recognized Ms. Huang as a Super Lawyer in the area of Civil Rights since 2020.