<span class="vcard">Kristy Parker</span>

Kristy Parker

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Kristy Parker (@KPNatsFan) has been a Counsel at Protect Democracy since 2017, where she leads counsel teams in El Paso County v. Trump, a successful challenge to President Trump’s use of an emergency proclamation to build the border wall now on appeal in the Fifth Circuit, and PEN American Center v. Trump, a First Amendment challenge to President Trump’s threats and retaliatory acts against the press that is ongoing in the Southern District of New York.

Kristy previously served for nineteen years in the U.S. Department of Justice, most recently for fifteen years in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, where she prosecuted police excessive force, hate crimes, and human trafficking cases, as a Trial Attorney, Special Litigation Counsel, and Deputy Chief.  During her tenure, Ms. Parker won the Civil Rights Division’s Walter Barnett Award for Excellence in Advocacy and the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service. In 2009, she was named Top Prosecutor of the Year by the Women in Federal Law Enforcement. Kristy received her D.Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, after which she clerked for the Hon. Stephanie K. Seymour on the Tenth Circuit. She is also on LinkedIn.

Articles by this author:

Trump leaves the Manhattan Supreme Court where he serves on jury duty on August 17, 2015 in New York City. Reporters gather around him with cameras and microphones.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco speaks at the launch of the Justice Department's "five cross-jurisdictional trafficking strike forces" to staff from Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the Department of Justice at the ATF in Washington, DC, on 22 July, 2021.
The secondary entry in the Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC. An American flag hangs above the entryway and words etched over the doorway read, “The place of justice is a hallowed place.”
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at a youth-led climate strike organized by environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement near City Hall on December 6, 2019 in New York City.
Trump and Barr
Trump and Barr speak without face masks East Room of the White House on July 22, 2020.
Barr and Trump

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