Contender to Run Civil Rights Post Can’t Be Pigeonholed

Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.

By Beth Reinhard
Updated March 9, 2017 11:36 p.m. ET
A media-savvy Indian-American leader of the California Republican Party who sang a Sikh prayer at last year’s national convention is an early candidate to lead the closely watched Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.

San Francisco trial lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, one of her state’s representatives to the Republican National Committee, interviewed with Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week, according to sources familiar…

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Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.