Harmeet K. Dhillon is the Republican candidate for state assembly from California's 13th Assembly District, covering the eastern half of San Francisco . Harmeet, who lives in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, 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, 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 has won many awards for her pro bono legal work on behalf of the Indian American community in areas including domestic violence, hate crimes, and employment discrimination. [HKD] Most recently, she was awarded the prestigious “Best Lawyers Under 40” award by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Harmeet is also 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. In addition, Harmeet is a Trustee of The Sikh Foundation and regular outside counsel to both the Sikh American Legal and Educational Defense Fund and The Sikh Coalition, representing plaintiffs in religious discrimination and hate crime matters.

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