Christy E. Lopez... is a deputy chief of the Special Litigation Section in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She leads efforts to enforce a law giving the attorney general standing to investigate and bring suit to remedy patterns or practices of law enforcement misconduct. She has supervised investigations of the New Orleans Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department;formulated the DOJ statement of interest in the Floyd litigation challenging the NewYork Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices; and investigated the law enforcement response to a sexual assault in Montana. In 2013, Ms. Lopez was a recipient of the John Marshall Award, the DOJ’s highest award for attorneys, for her work on the New Orleans case. She served as a federal court monitor from 2003 to 2010 and was monitor to Senior District Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the Northern District of California, assessing and reporting on the Oakland (California) Police Department’s compliance with a federal consent decree. Ms. Lopez authored an American Constitution Society Issue Brief in 2010, "Disorderly (mis)Conduct:The Problem with ‘Contempt of Cop’ Arrests." Ms. Lopez has taught law school courses on alternative dispute resolution and on ethnic and national origin profiling after 9/11. A California native, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and her J.D. fromYale Law School. She clerked for Alsaka Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Eastaugh from 1994 to 1995.