Sam Hirsch is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Jenner & Block LLP. Sam has practiced election, voting-rights, and redistricting law since the 1990s and has litigated cases in these fields in more than 20 states. His articles on redistricting and election administration have appeared in a broad range of publications, ranging from the Election Law Journal to The New York Times. From 2009 to 2017, Sam served in the U.S. Department of Justice as the Deputy Associate Attorney General and as the acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Sam also maintains an active legal practice on behalf of Indian tribes. A native Kentuckian, Sam graduated in 1984 from Rice University and in 1993 from the Harvard Law School, where he was the Treasurer of the Harvard Law Review. Sam and his wife, Karin Green, have two adult daughters, Julia and Charlotte.