Katherine “Katie” Becker is a law clerk at Hecker Fink LLP.
While in law school, Katie spent her summers at Hecker Fink, the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. At the Public Defender Service, she acted as first chair in three contested hearings before the U.S. Parole Commission.
Before law school, Katie worked in direct legal services with the Alaska Public Defender Agency, the Legal Aid of North Carolina Farmworker Unit, and the University of North Carolina School of Law Clinical Programs. She was also a Fulbright-García Robles English Teaching Assistant at a teachers’ college in Mexico. Katie is fluent in Spanish and an experienced legal interpreter.
Katie earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for the Yale Law Journal, the Executive Empirical Editor for the Yale Law & Policy Review, and a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law. She represented clients in criminal and administrative matters in the Criminal Justice and Mental Health Justice Clinics, and worked on consumer-protection litigation through the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project. Katie completed a master in public affairs from Princeton University, an M.A. from Queen’s University Belfast, and a B.A. from Duke University.