About Edith D. Hanly

Edith represents states and municipal governments in cases nationwide for PCBs and PFAS pollution. Edith previously clerked for the Honorable Orelia E. Merchant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2024-2025).

In law school, she externed for the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana. As a student attorney in the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, Edith represented RISE St. James, an environmental justice group, in Inclusive Louisiana et al. v. St. James Parish, a federal civil rights suit challenging racially discriminatory industrial siting in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” 

Edith graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University Law School in 2023 and earned a B.A. from Oberlin College in 2016.