Sejal Jhaveri

Prior to joining CLC, Sejal spent 8 years at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  During that time, she litigated employment discrimination and voting rights cases, including leading the preliminary injunction briefing and argument for the Department’s team in Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights v. Susan Beals, and was a member of the successful trial team in Mi Familia Vota v. Adrian Fontes.    

Sejal is a graduate of Brown University (A.B. 2009), Johns Hopkins School of Education (M.A.T., 2011) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D. 2015).  At the University of Virginia, she graduated with Order of the Coif and received the Caplin Public Service Award.  After law school, Sejal clerked for the Honorable Judge A. Gibney Jr. on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and then for the Honorable Judge R. Guy Cole on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  Prior to law school, Sejal was a high school social studies teacher in Baltimore City.  She is admitted to practice law in New York.  Her work conducted in the District of Columbia is limited to federal courts. Sejal joined CLC in 2025.