Jackie Fielding

Jackie is an associate in the firm’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution group. She joined the firm in 2023.

Jackie was previously a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Taryn A. Merkl in the U.S. Federal Court for the Eastern District of New York. She also spent two years as a Robina Public Interest Fellow and Counsel in the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

Jackie was awarded the University of Minnesota’s William B. Lockhart Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Leadership, and Service. She also won “Best Oralist” at the William McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court (2020). Jackie was an honorable mention for the 2020 Equal Justice Awards by Minnesota Women Lawyers.

• Author, “Outlawing Police Quotas,” Brennan Center for Justice, July 13, 2022
• Co-Author, “Revenue Over Public Safety,” Brennan Center for Justice, July 6, 2022
• Co-Author, “Criminal Legal Reform One Year into the Biden Administration,” Brennan Center, January 24, 2022
• Co-Author, “Miscarriage of Justice: The Danger of Laws Criminalizing Pregnancy Outcomes,” Brennan Center for Justice and Ms. Magazine, November 9, 2021
• Co-Author, “A Courts-Focused Research Agenda for the Department of Justice,” Brennan Center for Justice, April 20, 2021
• Co-Author, “Misdemeanor Convictions Cause Real Harm. New York Needs a New Approach,” The Appeal, March 12, 2021
• Co-Author, “Poverty and Mass Incarceration in New York: An Agenda for Change,” Brennan Center for Justice, February 23, 2021
• Author, “The Most Broken of the Broken,” Brennan Center for Justice, January 11, 2021
• Co-Author, “A Federal Agenda for Criminal Justice Reform,” Brennan Center for Justice, December 9, 2020
• Author, “Wreaking Extraordinary Destruction: Defendant’s Irreplaceability as Presumptively Reasonable Grounds for Downward Departure in Sentencing,” Minnesota Law Review, May 13, 2020