Katie Chamblee-Ryan Keynote speaker

Katie is an experienced civil rights litigator with a successful record in state and federal trial and appellate courts, including on novel constitutional claims.

Katie came to ELG in 2025 from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. While in the Civil Rights Division, Katie served as lead attorney in the negotiations for United States v. Minneapolis, which alleged a pattern or practice of unconstitutional conduct by the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. In that case and others, Katie successfully developed first-of-their-kind findings for the Department on unlawful retaliation against journalists; law enforcement officers’ duty to intervene against excessive force; and law enforcement agencies that operate under unconstitutional financial conflicts of interest.