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Sundeep Iyer is the Acting Executive Assistant Attorney General. Iyer previously served as Director of the Division on Civil Rights. Prior to his appointment as Director of DCR, Iyer was an Assistant Attorney General and Senior Counsel to Attorney General Platkin, serving as the Attorney General’s principal advisor on civil rights matters. Iyer also previously worked as a senior associate at Hogan Lovells US LLP. While at the firm, he served as a special attorney for the State of Minnesota in the prosecution of the four former police officers charged in connection with the death of George Floyd. Iyer clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices David H. Souter and Stephen G. Breyer, as well as for then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Yale Law School.