Julia Fromholz
Advocacy Counsel
Joined Human Rights First in 2006

As Advocacy Counsel in Human Rights First’s Washington, DC office, Julia Fromholz is responsible for devising and executing strategies to influence U.S. law and policy on a variety of international human rights issues, with a special focus on combating genocide and crimes against humanity, and protecting human rights defenders at risk around the world.

Prior to joining HRF, Julia worked with local human rights organizations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, focusing on monitoring and reform of the criminal justice system. She has published pieces on the Khmer Rouge tribunal and the rights of defendants, monitored trials, and designed an advocacy campaign to challenge excessive pretrial detention. Before moving to Cambodia, Julia clerked for Judge William Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, where she represented clients in complex civil litigation and federal and state criminal matters.

Julia graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude and earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served as editor in chief of the California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.