Mr. Michael Kirkpatrick

Law/Policy Mentor

Michael T. Kirkpatrick is an attorney at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington, D.C., where he has worked since March 2004. Mr. Kirkpatrick’s practice areas include constitutional law, civil rights, administrative law, and open government, including practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Before joining the Litigation Group, Mr. Kirkpatrick served as a senior trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1995-2004), where he litigated employment discrimination cases against state and local government employers under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and defended the constitutionality of federal affirmative action programs.

Earlier in his career (1991-1995), Mr. Kirkpatrick was a staff attorney with the Farm Worker Division of Texas Rural Legal Aid (TRLA), where he litigated employment and civil rights cases on behalf of migrant, transnational, and contingent workers. Mr. Kirkpatrick earned his undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University in 1987. In 1991, he graduated cum laude from the American University, Washington College of Law. Mr. Kirkpatrick is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a 2007-2008 Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School.