Anuja Thatte is a Senior Counsel in LDF’s DC office. Anuja is lead counsel in a litigation challenging an Alabama law that restricts the right of disabled, blind, and low literacy voters from receiving requested assistance with the absentee voting process. Among other representative matters, she has litigated incursions on the right to protest, the right to vote, and the right to an equitable education.
Prior to LDF, Anuja was the Public Interest and Commercial Litigation associate at a boutique trial firm in New York City, where her pro bono practice included serving as lead counsel on post-conviction, immigration, and economic justice matters. Anuja also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Anuja received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she served as an Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation and received the clinic awards for the Environmental Law Clinic and Three Strikes Project. She also received a B.S. with honors in Urban and Regional Studies from Cornell University and was named a Merrill Presidential Scholar.
Anuja is a member of the bars of New York State, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
