Amethyst Phillips

Amethyst is a law clerk at Goodwin. She joined Goodwin in 2024. Amethyst’s application to the California bar is pending; she is practicing under the supervision of the partners at Goodwin.

Before joining Goodwin as a law clerk, Amethyst was a law clerk for Perkins Coie in 2023 and Goodwin in 2022. Prior to law school, Phillips had a fourteen year career as an educator. In 2007 she joined Teach For America (TFA) Chicago as a high school Chemistry teacher. After completing her two-year commitment with TFA, Phillips continued as an educator for 12 more years, adding a physics credential, speaking at multiple national teacher conferences, and holding various leadership positions. As an educator, Phillips is most proud of being named 2008-2009 Teacher of the Year by her students.

While in law school, Amethyst was honored as scholarship recipient by the Langston Bar Association twice (2023 and 2024), the Womxn of Color Collective of UCLA School of Law (2023), the Black Women Lawyers of Los Angeles (2024), and UCLA school of law as the recipient of the Skye Donald Spirit of the Community Award (2024) and the Achievement Fellowship. Amethyst served on the faculty Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, the student hiring committee, and as the secretary for the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). Amethyst has also been a Special Graduate Assistant Tutor in Torts and a Research Assistant in Trademark law. Phillips has mentored first-year law students both formally and informally through CRS, BLSA, and UCLA Law Fellows. Additionally, Phillips co-developed and co-facilitated a workshop on “Anti-Racist Organizing in the Classroom” for first-year CRS students.

She is member of the Langston Bar Association and the Black Women Lawyers of Los Angeles. Amethyst has served as a STAAR reader for her local Los Angeles Public Library for the last year and she currently holds a Professional Educator’s License in the state of Illinois for Grades 9-12 in Physics and Chemistry.