Law clerk to Chief Judge Mark Barnett
U.S. Court of International Trade
At twenty-three, Shahnoor Khan was the youngest lawyer hired by Ropes & Gray LLP, a preeminent law firm consistently ranked in the top of Vault and the American Lawyer’s respective law firm rankings. She completed her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in three years as a double major in both international relations and political science. While at New Paltz, Khan worked at the Career Resource Center, the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives, and the Office of Campus Sustainability. Khan spearheaded the college’s first Sustainability Implementation Team and lobbied with her team to ban single use plastic bottles from campus.
Khan moved down to Washington, D.C. for law school at the American University Washington College of Law on a merit scholarship. During law school, Khan worked at both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice. She had her law review comment published in the American University Law Review, an internationally-recognized law journal ranked in the top fifty nationwide. Khan later served as the editor-in-chief of Volume 72 of the American University Law Review. She graduated with her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in May 2023, and began working as a lawyer later that year. Khan recently began a new position as law clerk to Chief Judge Mark Barnett at the U.S. Court of International Trade.
