Kristin Holladay is an associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice.

Kristin has argued multiple appeals in state and federal court. She joined Latham after completing a Bristow Fellowship in the Office of the US Solicitor General. Kristin also served as a fellow in the Appeals & Opinions Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. During those fellowships, she argued multiple state and federal court appeals.

Kristin served as a law clerk to Judge Gary S. Feinerman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and to Judge William J. Kayatta, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Kristin graduated from Stanford Law School, where she participated in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and served as an online editor for the Stanford Law Review.

Kristin’s experience includes:

  • Successfully arguing a Seventh Circuit appeal involving multiple claims under Illinois law, including the Illinois Right of Publicity Act
  • Successfully challenging a California law on First-Amendment grounds in the Ninth Circuit
  • Successfully defending in the Supreme Court a decision preserving Oklahoma’s ability to refuse to fund public religious charter schools
  • Persuading the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in a case concerning the equitable doctrine of judicial estoppel

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Stanford Law School, 2021
  • BA in History & Literature, Harvard University, 2015
    magna cum laude