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Julia Spiegel is an impact litigator and human rights advocate with a decade of experience in some of the highest levels of federal, state, and local government. She serves as a Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary to California Governor Gavin Newsom, spearheading the Governor's reproductive rights, consumer protection, immigration, and health and human services work. Prior to this position, Julia served as a deputy county counsel in the Santa Clara County Counsel' Office, where she litigated high-impact lawsuits on immigration and social justice matters, including the nation's first lawsuit to block a federal rule that punished certain immigrants for their use of public benefits as well as the first government lawsuit against opioid manufacturers for their role in creating the opioid epidemic. Julia was named a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year and received an award from the County Counsel's Association of California for her work to secure a nationwide injunction barring federal defunding of sanctuary jurisdictions. Julia previously served as a senior policy advisor to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and as a law clerk to Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before graduate school, Julia researched armed conflict in eastern Africa for the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group. For the last several years Julia has taught a course on the Future of Global Cooperation. She also teaches Foreign Affairs and the Constitution. Julia is a graduate of Yale Law School (J.D.), Princeton School of Public & International Affairs (M.P.A.), and Stanford University (B.A.). |