GW Law will welcome six Richey Fellows throughout the 2026-27 academic year to provide resources and guidance to students considering non-profit and public sector careers.
Named in honor of the Hon. Charles R. Richey of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the Richey Fellows Program brings highly accomplished mid-career public interest lawyers to the GW Law campus for a three-day on campus residency. The fellows, each of whom is a leader in their field of public interest practice, meet one-on-one with students and host insightful events about non-profit and public sector careers.
The program provides students with diverse perspectives about public interest careers in a wide variety of practice areas. This year’s Richey Fellows will bring the benefit of their exceptional expertise and experience in legal aid impact litigation; advancing educational equity; civil, women’s and human rights; defending democracy; protecting federal workers; and police accountability.
2026-27 Richey Fellows
Phylicia H. Hill
Visiting Dates: September 14-16
Phylicia H. Hill is the Director of Impact Litigation at Legal Aid DC, where she spearheads the organization's Impact Litigation, using affirmative litigation to challenge systemic inequities affecting low-income District residents. Before joining Legal Aid DC, she served as Counsel in the Criminal Justice and Economic Justice Projects at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, litigating cases involving employment discrimination, racially biased policing, and conditions of confinement. She also established the Records Assistance Program, providing pro bono legal services to help individuals seal, expunge, or correct criminal records, and coordinated amicus briefs in three landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases. Previously, Phylicia was a Senior Trial Attorney and Gideon’s Promise Fellow at the Office of the Public Defender in Montgomery, Alabama, where she practiced holistic, client-centered defense. She holds degrees from The George Washington Law School, Auburn University, and Florida A&M University.
Bradley Girard
Visiting Dates: October 20-22
Bradley Girard (Senior Counsel, Democracy Forward) is a public-interest impact litigator who practices in all levels of state and federal courts, with a focus on the federal courts of appeals and Supreme Court.
After graduating from Georgetown Law, Bradley clerked for the Honorable Neal Kravitz on the D.C. Superior Court and on the Sixth Circuit for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey. Bradley also served for two years as the clinical-teaching fellow at Georgetown’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, teaching students public-interest appellate litigation. Bradley was a constitutional-litigation fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and later returned to litigate cutting-edge First Amendment cases. During law school, Bradley worked at Gupta Wessler, Public Justice, Mehri & Skalet, and the D.C. District Court.
Bradley served as a 2023-24 Georgetown Law Blume Public Interest Leader in Residence and a 2024-25 Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellow. He is on the Advisory Board of the People’s Parity Project.
Joanne Lin
Visiting Dates: November 2-4
Joanne Lin has served as Executive Director of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs since April 2023. She brings over 25 years of experience in public interest law, national policy advocacy, and nonprofit organizational leadership.
Joanne has deep expertise in immigrant justice, civil rights, women’s rights and human rights. A battle-tested crisis manager, Joanne has successfully led litigators and advocates fighting for economic and racial justice at the local, regional, national and international levels.
Joanne previously directed the Advocacy and Government Affairs program at Amnesty International USA, focusing on refugee protection and human rights. She also spent a decade at the American Civil Liberties Union leading national policy advocacy on immigration and civil rights. Earlier in her career, Joanne specialized in representing survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault — first at legal aid and then at a national women’s rights organization.
Joanne has been consistently recognized for her significant achievements in public interest law. She received a 2025 NYU Law School distinguished alumni award from the Law Alumni of Color Association. In 2021 Joanne received the Women’s Leadership Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She was also named a top grassroots association lobbyist by The Hill for four consecutive years.
Joanne is a graduate of NYU School of Law (JD), Stanford School of Education (MA), and Stanford University (BA).
Antonio Ingram
Visiting Dates: February 9-11
Antonio Lavalle Ingram II serves as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he works on educational equity cases in the south. He is a graduate of Yale College and UC Berkeley School of Law. He worked as a litigation associate at Morrison & Foerster and Boies Schiller Flexner and previously served as a federal judicial law clerk for the honorable Ivan L. Lemelle in the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana and for Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. He also completed a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship in Malawi where he worked for the Malawian government and served in their Anti-Corruption Bureau. He has previously served as a Blume Public Interest Leader in Residence and Visiting Lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center and a Racial Justice Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
Suzanne Summerlin
Visiting Dates: February 22-24
Suzanne Summerlin is a labor attorney who represents unions in litigation, at the bargaining table, and in internal governance matters including elections, ethics, and compliance. In 2023, President Biden nominated her to serve as General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
Since 2025, she has also served as General Counsel of Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network, founded on the recognition that there are not enough expert attorneys available to help federal workers facing unprecedented attacks on the civil service. At Rise Up, she helped develop and launch a training program for a corps of 100 volunteer attorneys to provide free legal help to federal workers.
She maintains a solo law practice, Summerlin Labor Strategies. A 2013 graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, she is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
William Most
Visiting Dates: March 29-31
Attorney William Most graduated from Harvard College in 2005, began law school at GW Law in 2009, and then transferred and obtained a law degree from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 2011.
He practiced at the California law firm of Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP before moving to New Orleans in 2014. His firm, Most & Associates, is the largest for-profit civil rights organization in Louisiana, and his practice consists primarily of plaintiff-side police misconduct, employment discrimination, First Amendment, prisoners’ rights, whistleblower, voting rights, environmental, class action, and other litigation.
Mr. Most has testified before the state legislature, made hundreds of media appearances, and frequently presents on a range of civil rights and litigation topics.
Prior to a career in law, Mr. Most was a fisheries biologist.
