Katie Cion / Cochran Fellow

Katie Cion joined NSBHF as a Cochran Fellow in 2024. Before joining the firm, Katie clerked for Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York and Judge Patricia A. Millett of the D.C. Circuit.  Prior to clerking, Katie served as a law fellow in the MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court and Appellate Program, representing clients on appeal in prison conditions and police misconduct cases across the country. There, she successfully argued a case before the Ninth Circuit on behalf of an incarcerated client whose constitutional claims had been dismissed based on an unduly restrictive reading of the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

During law school, Katie served as the Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review, overseeing an issue on healthcare and legal rights and publishing a chapter on COVID-19 and prison conditions. Katie was also a student attorney in the Democracy and Rule of Law and Consumer Protection and Predatory Lending clinics, and spent her summers at the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and the Legal Aid Society’s Decarceration Project.