Christine Monta

Christine Monta joined the Supreme Court & Appellate Program of the MacArthur Justice Center (MJC) in 2023.  As a Supreme Court & Appellate Counsel, she briefs and argues important civil rights and criminal justice issues in federal and state appeals courts around the country, including qualified immunity, excessive force, access to courts, conditions of confinement, and extreme sentencing. 

Prior to joining MJC, Christine was a Senior Attorney in the Appellate Section of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where she worked to enforce the nation’s civil rights laws in federal and state appellate courts.  Before that, Christine briefed and argued dozens of appeals on behalf of accused and incarcerated persons as an appellate attorney at the D.C. Public Defender Service, the nation’s premier public defender office. 

Christine graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked for the late Honorable Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.