Felicia L. Chambers

FELICIA L. CHAMBERS is a Past President of the Washington Bar Association (“WBA”). As such, she is currently serving on the Board of Directors and the Council of Past Presidents.  Ms. Chambers instituted the Annual Career Fair for Law Students as a staple of the WBA calendar and her institutional knowledge and her support of the bar association has proven invaluable.

Ms. Chambers served two three-year terms as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar, is also a former Co-Chair of the D.C. Bar's Administrative Law and Agency Practice Section; a former member of the Retrospective Review Advisory Committee to the Standing Committee of Fairness and Access to the D.C. Courts; and a former member of the Board for the Greater Washington Area Chapter, Women Lawyer's Division of the National Bar Association (“GWAC”).  As WBA President and the first woman Chair of the Department of Justice Association of Black Attorneys (“DOJABA”), she has participated in the D.C. Bar Voluntary Bar Leadership Group.  She secured DOJABA representation on Attorney General Reno's Pro Bono and Volunteer Services Committee and was a “Big Sister.” 

A career public servant, Ms. Chambers is Senior Trial Counsel in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division with the U.S. Department of Justice. She represents federal agencies in trial court litigation throughout the country.  Ms. Chambers is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.  She is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.