Craig Trainor

Craig Trainor

Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, United States Department of Education

Topics: Civil Rights • Constitution • Criminal Law & Procedure • Due Process • Federalism • First Amendment • Litigation • Property Law • Religious Liberty • Separation of Powers

Craig Trainor is Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education.

He previously served as Senior Special Counsel with the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary under Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Senior Litigation Counsel with the America First Policy Institute under former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Of Counsel with The Fairness Center.

For over ten years, Mr. Trainor was a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer in New York City, litigating cases in New York state court and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Prior to founding his law practice, he served as a New York City prosecutor, an associate attorney at a white collar criminal defense firm, and a law clerk to Chief Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.

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