Fadwa A. Hammoud, J.D. '10

Fadwa A. Hammoud was sworn in as Michigan's 12th solicitor general on Jan. 15, 2019. Upon her appointment by Attorney General Dana Nessel, Hammoud became the youngest Michigan solicitor general and the first Arab American Muslim solicitor general in the United States. She also made history by becoming the first Arab American Muslim woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. In Brown v. Davenport, a habeas corpus case, the State of Michigan argued that the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals applied the wrong test, and thus disregarded Congress's directive in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

Hammoud supervises all appellate activity and, as bureau chief of the Criminal Justice Bureau, supervises all criminal divisions in the department as well as the newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. Additionally, she leads the Flint water crisis investigation and prosecution team of special agents and assistant attorneys general.

She assumed her role as Michigan's top appellate attorney after years of public service on behalf of the people of Wayne County. As lead attorney under Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy, Hammoud established the Business Protection Unit and prosecuted criminal enterprise, homicide, financial crime and identity theft cases.

She also served as a trustee and treasurer of the Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education and the Henry Ford College Board of Trustees and Officers, championing public education in her hometown. A first-generation American, Hammoud advocated on behalf of Wayne County's various ethnic and immigrant communities and advised state, county and city leaders on their affairs. She served as a governor-appointed commissioner on the Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs within the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, among other executive and legislative advisory bodies. Hammoud currently serves as vice president of the Arab American Political Action Committee, where she promotes civic engagement and impact within Michigan's Arab American communities.

Hammoud clerked for the Hon. George C. Steeh in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She earned her bachelor's in political science and communication from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and her juris doctor from Wayne State University Law School.