Harmeet Dhillon
13th Assembly District Member
Harmeet K. Dhillon is a Member of the SFRP and is the Republican candidate for state assembly from A.D. 13, which covers the eastern half of San Francisco . Harmeet, who lives in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco on the “crooked” block of Lombard Street , is a lifelong Republican who came to the U.S. from India as a small child and grew up in rural North Carolina . A graduate of Dartmouth College (where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth Review) and the University of Virginia Law School (where she served on the Law Review and was President of the nation’s largest chapter of The Federalist Society) Harmeet clerked for U.S. 4th Circuit Appeals Court Judge Paul. V. Niemeyer (who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, and then elevated to the appeals court by George H.W. Bush), and then practiced law in New York and London for international law firms before moving to the Bay Area. She is a partner of the law firm Dhillon & Smith LLP in Union Square , a corporate and real estate boutique. Harmeet was recently awarded the prestigious “Best Lawyers Under 40” award by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and has won many awards for her pro bono legal work on behalf of refugees, victims of domestic violence, and religious discrimination litigants. Harmeet is a well-published author, having served as Assistant Editor for the Heritage Foundation’s magazine, Policy Review; she has also authored several op/ed pieces in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and The San Jose Mercury News. She currently serves as a Member of the San Francisco Republican Party, and is also a Member of the California Republican Party appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She serves on the Resolutions and Platform Committees of the CRP. Until 2008 Harmeet was the General Counsel of the San Francisco Young Republicans, and she currently serves on the boards of the California Women’s Leadership Association and the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California, where she chairs the Civil Rights Committee. You can find out more about Harmeet at www.dhillon08.com.
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