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Susan Serrano |
Susan Serrano
BA, University of California at Berkeley, 1992; JD, University of Hawai`i 1998
After graduation from law school, Ms. Serrano clerked for Associate Justices Robert G. Klein and Mario R. Ramil of the Hawai`i Supreme Court. From 2000-2001, she served as the Thurgood Marshall Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Following her fellowship, Ms. Serrano became the founding Research Director (2001-2005) of the national Equal Justice Society and served as Special Projects Attorney (2006) at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. While in law school, Ms. Serrano was the Articles Editor for the Law Review. She also worked at the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission, authored a chapter in E Alu Like Mai I Ka Pono: Coming Together For Justice, and won the Trina Grillo Award for Best Student Paper in Critical Race Theory. Ms. Serrano has published on civil rights, critical race theory, Native Hawaiian rights, and human rights. She also has co-authored amicus briefs in cases such as Grutter v. Bollinger and Doe v. Kamehameha Schools. Ms. Serrano is licensed to practice law in California and Hawai`i.
