About Whitney

Whitney Brown is an associate in Stoel Rives’ Litigation group.

Whitney rejoined Stoel Rives after serving as a law clerk to Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court (2021–2022). Earlier, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2019–2020), the Honorable Goodwin H. Liu of the Supreme Court of California (2018–2019), and the Honorable Morgan Christen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2017–2018). She also worked as a summer associate for two national law firms.

During law school, Whitney served as editor-in-chief of UCLA Law Review, co-president of the Health Law Society, and a writing adviser for first-year students. She participated in her school’s Supreme Court Clinic, in which she helped draft a merits brief that prevailed at the U.S. Supreme Court in Nelson v. Colorado, 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2017). Her student note explored sex discrimination in commercial contracting and received a nationwide award for recent developments in gender, law, and justice.

Prior to law school, Whitney worked as a legislative assistant in health policy in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, and as a charter school evaluator for Chicago Public Schools.