Amia L. Trigg serves as Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development at LDF. As the Director of Professional Development, she plans and manages legal skills trainings for LDF’s litigation team, and manages the summer intern and fellowship programs.
Amia was lead counsel in Florida NAACP v. Lee, a case that challenged several provisions of SB 90, a Florida law that made it more difficult for voters of color and voters with disabilities to cast their ballot. She is also lead counsel in an ongoing educational equity case in Chambers County, Alabama.
Amia is also a part of a group of attorneys who are working with the 36th District Court in Detroit, Michigan, with its post-settlement efforts to reform the cash bail system to ensure that unaffordable cash bail will be imposed only in rare cases in the City of Detroit.
Prior to joining LDF, Amia was a senior associate at Covington and Burling LLP where she maintained a robust pro bono practice. Amia served as Covington’s team lead in several large pro bono matters including: co-counseling with LDF and the ACLU of Michigan on a case that challenged the tax foreclosure practices in the City of Detroit, Michigan; co-counseling with the National ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project and the ACLU of Michigan on a case challenging the bail-setting practices in Detroit, Michigan; co-counseling with the National ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project and the ACLU of Oklahoma on a case challenging the bail-setting practices in Canadian County, Oklahoma; and co-counseling with the National ACLU and the ACLU of Southern California on a case challenging the COVID-19-related conditions of confinement in the Orange County, California Jail.
Amia attended the University of California, Berkeley and double majored in Psychology and African American Studies. She graduated with general distinction in Psychology and was the Salutatorian for the African American Studies Department. Amia attended Harvard Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and earned a joint Juris Doctor and Master in Public Policy. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable George B. Daniels on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Andre M. Davis (retired) on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Amia serves as a board member for Voices For a Second Chance, a nonprofit organization that provides support and services to D.C. residents who are rebuilding their lives after periods of incarceration.
She is a member of the bars of California, the District of Columbia and New York.
