Linda Singer

Linda Singer (born September 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American attorney. She was the Washington, D.C. Attorney General from January 2, 2007 to January 5, 2008, and developed initiatives against gun violence.

Singer is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (B.A. 1988) and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1991) where she was a leader of student protests on discrimination in hiring on the Harvard Law School faculty.

She was a staff attorney in of the Legal Aid Society of New York's Criminal Defense Division. She became the executive director of the Appleseed Foundation, and served in this post for 13 years.

She became a partner with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC in New York in 2009.