Linda Singer


Linda Singer is an American attorney. She was the Attorney General of the District of Columbia from January 2, 2007 to January 5, 2008, and developed initiatives against gun violence.

Education and career

Singer is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School where she was a leader of student protests against discrimination in law school faculty hiring.
She was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York's Criminal Defense Division. She became the executive director of the Appleseed Foundation, and served in this post for 13 years.
She became a partner with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC in New York in 2009.
In 2017, Linda joined Motley Rice to grow the firm's public client practice.