Christine Berger is a senior fellow at the Brennan Center, where she focuses on civil rights, professional responsibility and ethics, democracy, and rule of law issues. Previously, Berger served in various roles in the Department of Justice, including principal deputy assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division, deputy chief of staff and senior counselor to the attorney general, and civil rights appellate attorney. At the State Department, Berger served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser. Berger was also chief counsel to Sen. Mazie Hirono when she was ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Berger received her BA and MA from Stanford University and her JD from Yale Law School, where she served as managing editor of The Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Judge Raymond J. Lohier Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
