Anne Dutton

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Senior Counsel

Pronouns: she/her

Anne engages in strategic litigation on a range of asylum issues and provides technical assistance and training to other attorneys representing asylum seekers.

Anne first joined CGRS as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. Before assuming her Staff Attorney role, Anne clerked for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the Second Circuit. Prior to law school, Anne worked for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service’s policy advocacy office, covering issues related to unaccompanied children, immigration detention, and refugee and asylum law. 

Languages: Spanish

Education

University of Minnesota School of Social Work, M.S.W.

University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
Student Director, Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic
Articles Submission Editor, University of Minnesota Law Review

St. Olaf College, B.A. in Social Work, magna cum laude

Admitted to practice law in California and Minnesota

Selected Publications and Commentary