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Michelle W. Anderson
Ms. Anderson joined the firm as an environmental law fellow in 2006, after clerking for the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She has also served as a Fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Civil Rights at the University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law, where she authored forthcoming scholarship concerning urban unincorporated areas.
Ms. Anderson graduated from Boalt Hall in 2004, where she earned the Thelen, Marrin Prize for Law Journal Writing and was elected to the Order of the Coif. During law school, she served as the Senior Articles Editor of the California Law Review, a co-director of the East Bay Workers’ Rights Clinic, a student board member and clinical intern at the East Bay Community Law Center, and a law clerk at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and Legal Aid of Marin. She authored “Colorblind Segregation: Equal Protection as a Bar to Neighborhood Integration,” 92 Cal. L. Rev. 841 (2004).
Prior to law school, Ms. Anderson earned a master’s degree in Regional and Urban Planning at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree from Yale University. Her undergraduate history thesis on the development of the environmental movement was awarded Yale’s Edwin W. Small Prize. She has worked at the European Commission’s Urban Policy Unit; the urban planning firm of Colin, Buchanan & Partners; and several non-profit organizations dedicated to social and environmental justice.
Ms. Anderson is a member of the bars of the State of California, the Northern District of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.