Joanna Lydgate ’10 was recently named Director of Policy for Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Lydgate has worked for Healey, the nation’s first openly LGBT state attorney general, since June 2014. Previously, Lydgate was a law clerk at the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, and an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Before attending Berkeley Law, she worked for two years at the nonprofit Human Rights First on refugee protection issues, and for two years at the Legal Aid Society of New York’s Juvenile Rights Division.