Casey Trombley-Shapiro Jonas is the legal director of the Health Justice and Public Benefits program at the Legal Aid Justice Center. Before joining LAJC, she was a litigator at Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington, D.C., where she handled a wide variety of matters and managed cases from pre-litigation settlement negotiations to drafting and filing complaints, arguing motions, deposing witnesses, preparing experts and arguing appeals. Her work included developing a nationwide program to pair family planning providers with local pro bono counsel following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization; seeking compassionate release on behalf of clients denied adequate medical care while incarcerated; and defending federal statutory programs designed to promote and preserve access to essential health care, including the 340B program, the Title X program and the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Previously, Jonas clerked for then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and for Judge Paul J. Watford on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Jonas received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was president of Virginia Law Women, articles editor for the Virginia Law Review, voter protection director for the Virginia Law Democrats and on the board of the Program in Law and Public Service. She received the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize, the National Association of Women Lawyers Award and the Trial Advocacy Award, and she was a Mary Claiborne and Roy H. Ritter Scholar. Prior to law school, Jonas worked as an artist, barista and member of former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s legislative staff, focused primarily on international women’s rights. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.